Name: Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities (en Inglés)
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Author: Siraj Ahmed
ISBN: 9781503604025

portada Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Stanford University Press

Autor

Siraj Ahmed

Año

2017

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

280

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781503604025

N° edición

Categorías

Aprendizaje de idiomas

Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities (en Inglés)

Siraj Ahmed (Autor) · Stanford University Press · Tapa Blanda

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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 modern humanities silently reinforces a colonial hierarchy. In fact, each of philology's foundational innovations originally served British rule in India. Tracing an unacknowledged history that extends from British Orientalist Sir William Jones to Palestinian American intellectual Edward Said and beyond, Archaeology of Babel excavates the epistemic transformation that was engendered on a global scale by the colonial reconstruction of native languages, literatures, and law. In the process, it reveals the extent to which even postcolonial studies and European philosophy—not to mention discourses as disparate as Islamic fundamentalism, Hindu nationalism, and global environmentalism—are the progeny of colonial rule. Going further, it unearths the alternate concepts of language and literature that were lost along the way and issues its own call for humanists to reckon with the politics of the philological practices to which they now return.