Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities

Siraj Ahmed

ISBN 10: 1503604020 / ISBN 13: 9781503604025

Edité par Stanford University Press, 2018

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities
• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1503604020
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781503604025
• Reliure: Pictorial Softcover. Paperback
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket, as Issued

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Synopsis

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 hidden pre-colonial practices that might well help the humanities move beyond their current methodological and political impasses.

À propos de l?auteur

Siraj Ahmed is Associate Professor in the Ph.D. Program in English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and in the Department of English and the Program in Comparative Literature at Lehman College. He is the author of The Stillbirth of Capital: Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India (Stanford University Press, 2012).