Beyond reason : postcolonial theory and the social sciences / Sanjay Seth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seth, Sanjay, 1961- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Postcolonialism--Philosophy.

Postcolonialism.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

The knowledge that has dominated the globe for more than a century first emerged in the early modern period in Europe, and subsequently became globalized through colonialism. Despite the historical and cultural specificity of its origins, modern Western knowledge was thought to have transcended its particularities such that, unlike pre-modern and non-Western knowledges, it was 'universal,' or true for all times and places. Deriving its critical energies principally from postcolonial theory, 'Beyond Reason' breaks new ground to argue that the assumed 'truths' of social scientific reason are products of the specific circumstances of Western modernity, and thus that the social sciences are a parochial form of knowledge spuriously claiming universality.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I. Modern western knowledge under challenge

Unsettling the modern knowledge settlement

Defending reason : a postcolonial critique

Part II. Postcolonialism and social science

The code of history

The anachronism of history

International relations : amnesia and empire

Political theory and the bourgeois public sphere

Epilogue. Knowledge and politics.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Seth, Sanjay, 1961- Beyond reason

ISBN:

0-19-750060-9

0-19-750061-7

0-19-750059-5

OCLC:

1176322533