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Reconsidering American Power - Pax Americana and the Social Sciences (Hardcover)
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Reconsidering American Power - Pax Americana and the Social Sciences (Hardcover)
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Postcolonial studies, postmodern studies, even posthuman studies
emerge, and intellectuals demand, that social sciences be remade to
address fundamentals of the human condition, from human rights to
global environmental crises. But is it easier to reimagine the
human and the modern than to properly measure pervasive American
influence? American power elevated many social sciences to global
prominence: economics, political science, psychology, sociology and
anthropology. But even though they, and history and the
contemporary humanities, owe so much to American state sponsorship,
most scholars have been curiously reluctant to address the American
era in unflinching critical terms, beyond stories of
neo-colonialism and informal imperialism. This volume seeks to
provoke an intellectual confrontation whose time has come,
especially for social sciences whose own self-understanding is at
stake, and for everyone's future. The scholars assembled here do
not claim a subaltern voice, or a view from outside: they ask to be
seen as critics from the inside, informed but disjoint. These
milestone essays, by leaders in their fields, pursue realities
behind their theories, and reconsider the real origins and motives
of their fields with an eye to what will deter or repurpose the
'fiery huts' to come.
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