This book uses a historical and theoretical focus to examine the
key of issues of the Enlightenment, Orientalism, concepts of
identity and difference, and the contours of different modernities
in relation to both local and global shaping forces, including the
spread of capitalism.
The contributors present eight in-depth studies and a
substantial theoretical introduction, utilizing primary and
secondary sources in Turkish, Farsi, Chinese, not to mention
English, French and German in the effort to engage materials and
cultural perspectives from diverse regions. It provides a critical
attempt to think through the potentialities and limitations of
area-studies and 'civilizational' approaches to the production of
knowledge about the modern world, and the often obscured
relationship between the fragment and the whole, or the particular
and universal. The book is an intervention in one of the most
fundamental debates confronting the social science and humanities,
namely how to understand global and local historical processes as
interconnected developments affecting human actors.
From Orientalism to Postcolonialism will be of interest to
academics and postgraduate students in Cultural and Postcolonial
Studies and Asian studies and Middle Eastern studies.
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