The Crises of Civilization: Exploring Global and Planetary Histories - Hardcover

Chakrabarty, Dipesh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199486735 ISBN 13: 9780199486731

Verlag: OUP India, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

The world created by the legacies of empire and colonialism now confronts some deep crises of civility, precipitated by globalization and climate change. In this volume, Dipesh Chakrabarty examines these distinct---but interrelated---issues side by side.

Varied ideas of civilization and humanism have shaped notions of a global humanity in the lingering twilight of the European empires. Detailing these ideas, in the section titled `Global Worlds', Chakrabarty outlines the conflicts and connections that arise from global encounters in our postcolonial age. The second section, `The Planetary Human', on the other hand, explores the significance of planetary climate change for humanistic and postcolonial thought. Chakrabarty argues that such change demands not only critiques of capitalism and inequality, but also new thinking about the human species as a whole---our patterns of justice, writing of history, and relationship with nature in the age of the Anthropocene.

The global is human-centric in construction; the planetary involves many other actors and thus includes the thorny question of how we go beyond the anthropocentric to discuss and conceptualize the agency of the non-human.

`The Crises of Civilization is a marvelous feast ... Challenging, moving, wise, and witty, this work by one of our leading historians is a major event.'

Martha C. Nussbaum, The University of Chicago, USA

`The first serious effort to push the subaltern school of history ... beyond its familiar world of global theoretical and empirical concerns, to open a conversation with planetary history... A call for the emancipation of the discipline of history in India.'

Ashis Nandy, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India

Cover visual: The natural and the human intertwine in a south-to-north perspective on a world that has been labelled north-to-south.

Courtesy: Anna Madeleine. `Get your world out of my head'.

Pigment ink and acrylic on inverted map. 2009.

Oxford University Press

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Dipesh Chakrabarty is Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, USA


Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago

Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, US. His books include Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 (1989), Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000), and The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth ( 2015).
He is a founding member of the editorial collective Subaltern Studies and a consulting editor of Critical Inquiry. He also holds an honorary D. Litt degree from the University of London (2010), and an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Antwerp (2011). He received the 2014 Toynbee Prize for his contributions to global history and delivered the Tanner Lectures in Human Values at Yale in 2015.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: OUP India
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0199486735
• ISBN 13: 9780199486731
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 287
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