Archaeology of Babel : the colonial foundation of the humanities /

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This book locates the origins of the modern humanities in the philological practices of late 18th-century British scholars in colonial India, offering a radical reappraisal of a range of disciplines and excavating hiddenpre-colonial practices that might well help the humanities move beyond their cur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ahmed, Siraj Dean (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Imperialism and philology.
Philology > Political aspects > History.
Humanities > Methodology > History.
Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Impérialisme et philologie.
Philologie > Aspect politique > Histoire.
Littérature > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Study & Teaching.
Humanities > Methodology
Imperialism and philology
Literature > Theory, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The Colonial History of Comparative Method
  • The Return to Philology, the End of Weltliteratur
  • The Ruins of Babel, the Rise of Philology
  • Aryanism, Ursprache, “Literature”
  • Colonialism and Comparatism
  • Chapters in the History of the Philological Revolution
  • First Stratum : The Persian Imperium and Hafiz, 1771 A.D.-1390 A.D.
  • The Colonial Grammar of “Literature”
  • From the Persian Imperium to the British Empire
  • The Passions of Literature : Hafiz, 1771 A.D.
  • Nietzsche and “World Literature”
  • 5. Sovereign Law and Sacred Life : Hafiz, 1390 A.D.
  • Second stratum : the immanent : sharia and the Muallaqāt, 1782 A.D.-550 A.D.
  • The Colonial Rule of Law
  • The Imperial Institution of Shari‘a
  • Shari‘a from Colonialism to Islamism
  • Shari‘a from the Qur’ān to Colonialism
  • State Models and War Machines I : The Mu‘allaqāt, 1782 A.D.
  • State Models and War Machines II : The Mu‘allaqāt, 550 A.D.
  • Third stratum : the originary : the Dharma and Ṣakuntalā, 1794 A.D.-1400 B.C.
  • From the Indo-European Hypothesis to Hindu Nationalism : The Laws of Manu, 1794 A.D.
  • The Idea of Indo-European Civilization : Śakuntalā, 1789 A.D.
  • The Dharma and Sacrificial Violence, 100 A.D. to 1400 B.C.
  • The Sovereign and the Earth : Śakuntalā, 415 A.D. to 400 B.C.
  • Conclusion : genealogies of emergency
  • The Colonial Matrix of Emergency
  • Philology—Colonial Law—Emergency
  • The Real State of Emergency, the Tradition of the Oppressed, the Nameless.

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