Immanuel Wallerstein and the problem of the world : system, scale, culture / David Palumbo-Liu, Bruce Robbins, and Nirvana Tanoukhi, eds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palumbo-Liu, David.

Robbins, Bruce.

Tanoukhi, Nirvana.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice, 1930-2019.

Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Sociology--Philosophy.

Sociology.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallerstein s world-systems analysis.

Contents:

The modern world system : its structures, its geoculture, its crisis and transformation / Richard Lee

Blaming the system / Bruce Robbins

World-systems analysis, evolutionary theory, Weltliteratur / Franco Moretti

The scale of world literature / Nirvana Tanoukhi

The space of the world : beyond state-centrism? / Neil Brenner

Cartographies of connection : ocean maps as metaphors for inter-area history / Karen Wigen

What is a poem? : the event of women and the modern girl as problems in global or world history / Tani E. Barlow

Legal system of international rights / Helen Stacy

Rationality and world-systems analysis : Fanon and the impact of the ethico-historical / David Palumbo-Liu

Thinking about the humanities / Immanuel Wallerstein

The twilight of capital? / Gopal Balakrishnan.

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-25199-X

9786613251992

0-8223-9334-4

OCLC:

709610931