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Archaeology of Babel : The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities /
For more than three decades, preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a return to philology as the indispensable basis of critical method in the humanities. Against such calls, this book argues that the privilege philology has always enjoyed within the m...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2020]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PROLOGUE
- 1. The Return to Philology, the End of Weltliteratur
- 2. The Ruins of Babel, the Rise of Philology
- 3. Aryanism, Ursprache, "Literature"
- 4. Colonialism and Comparatism
- 5. Chapters in the History of the Philological Revolution
- 1. The Colonial Grammar of "Literature"
- 2. From the Persian Imperium to the British Empire
- 3. The Passions of Literature: Hafiz, 1771 a.d
- 4. Nietzsche and "World Literature"
- 5. Sovereign Law and Sacred Life: Hafiz, 1390 a.d
- 1. The Colonial Rule of Law
- 2. The Imperial Institution of Shari'a
- 3. Shari'a from Colonialism to Islamism
- 4. Shari'a from the Qur'ān to Colonialism
- 5. State Models and War Machines I: The Mu'allaqāt, 1782 a.d
- 6. State Models and War Machines II: The Mu'allaqāt, 550 a.d
- 1. From the Indo-European Hypothesis to Hindu Nationalism: The Laws of Manu, 1794 a.d
- 2. The Idea of Indo-European Civilization: Śakuntalā, 1789 a.d
- 3. The Dharma and Sacrificial Violence, 100 a.d. to 1400 b.c
- 4. The Sovereign and the Earth: Śakuntalā, 415 a.d. to 400 b.c
- 1. The Colonial Matrix of Emergency
- 2. Philology-Colonial Law-Emergency
- 3. The Real State of Emergency, the Tradition of the Oppressed, the Nameless
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX