The challenge of Eurocentrism : global perspectives, policy, and prospects / edited by Rajani Kannepalli Kanth ; with the assistance of Amit Basole.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rajani Kannepalli Kanth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eurocentrism.

Civilization, Modern--European influences.

Civilization, Modern.

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

The Challenge of Eurocentrism brings together original essays by leading scholars to offer a comprehensive critique of, and alternatives to, Eurocentrism and Modernism in received theory. In this volume, Rajani K. Kanth assembles a team of thirteen authors drawn from Economics, Philosophy, Mathematics, Political Science, Sociology, and Cultural Studies. The volume incorporates both theory and empirical studies, encompassing the Americas, Europe, Africa, West, South, and East Asia, and represents a trenchant challenge to the ideas, assumptions, theories, and policies, emanating from the European Enlightenment that dominate the world today. Kanth himself contributes an Introduction, Chapter, and Postface.

Contents:

Introduction Challenging Eurocentrism: 45 Theses / Rajani Kannepalli Kanth 1

Part 1 Received Theory, Science, and Eurocentrism

1 Eurocentric Roots of the Clash of Civilizations: A Perspective from the History of Science / Arun Bala 9

2 Mathematics and Eurocentrism / George Gheverghese Joseph 25

3 Official Corruption and Poverty: A Challenge to the Eurocentric View / Ravi Batra 45

Part 2 Perspectives on Africa, West, South, and East Asia

4 Pan-African and Afro-Asian Alternatives [to] and Critiques [of Eurocentrism] / Mathew Forstater 63

5 Economic Development and the Fabrication of the Middle East as a Eurocentric Project / Firat Demir, Fadhel Kaboub 77

6 The Phantom of Liberty: Mo(der)nism and Postcolonial Imaginations in India / Rajesh Bhattacharya, Amit Basole 97

7 Eurocentrism, Modernity, and the Postcolonial Predicament in East Asia / Kho Tung-Yi 121

Part 3 Perspectives on the West: Europe and the Americas

8 On Cultural Bondage: From Eurocentrism to Americocentrism / Ali A. Mazrui 147

9 American Exceptionalism and the Myth of the Frontiers / Rajiv Malhotra 171

10 What Have the Muslims Ever Done for Us? Islamic Origins of Western Civilization / John M. Hobson 217

Part 4 Eurocentrism: Policy and Prospects

11 Beyond Eurocentrism: The Next Frontier / Rajani Kannepalli Kanth 239

Postface: Eurocentrism-Whither Now? / Rajani Kannepalli Kanth 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

023061227X

9780230612273

OCLC:

226356992

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