基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2009.
Full Description
The notion of modernity hinges on a break with the past, such as superstitions, medieval worlds, and hierarchical traditions. It follows that modernity suggests the disenchantment of the world, yet the processes of modernity also create their own enchantments in the mapping and making of the modern world. Straddling a range of disciplines and perspectives, the essays in this edited volume eschew programmatic solutions, focusing instead in new ways on subjects of slavery and memory, global transformations and vernacular and vernacular modernity, imperial imperatives and nationalist knowledge, cosmopolitan politics and liberal democracy, and governmental effects and everyday affects. It is in these ways that the volume attempts to unravel the enchantments of modernity, in order to approach anew modernity's constitutive terms, formative limits, and particular possibilities.
Contents
Foreword by Veena Das Preface Acknowledgments 1. Modernity and its Enchantments: An IntroductionSaurabh DubeEffects: Colony and Nation2. North Atlantic Universals: Analytical Fictions, 1492-1945Michel-Rolph Trouillot3. Coloniality at Large: Time and the Colonial DifferenceWalter D. Mignolo4. The Space of Empire and the Territory of NationsUday S. Mehta5. Sanitizing Modernity: Imperial Hygiene, Obscenity, and Moral Regulation in Colonial IndiaDeana Heath6. Conversion to Translation: Colonial Registers of a Vernacular ChristianitySaurabh Dube7. The Moment of Criticism in Indian Nationalist Thought: Ramchandra Shukla and the Poeticsof a Hindi ResponsibilityMilind Wakankar8. Gandhi's Politics: Liberalism and the Question of the AshramAjay Skaria9. Illiberal IslamFaisal Devji10. Legacies of Bandung: Decolonization and the Politics of CultureDipesh ChakrabartyAffects: The Global and the Vernacular11. Affect: What is it Good for?William Mazzarella12. The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travelers Towards a Critique of Actually Existing CosmopolitanismCraig Calhoun13. The Absent Presence: Discourses of Crypto-ColonialismMichael Herzfeld14. The Martyrdom of Mosques: Imagery and Iconoclasm in Modern PakistanNaveeda Khan15. Mental Illness and the Urban Poor: Psychiatric Institutions and the Singularity of LivesVeena Das (with assistance from Rajan Bhandari and Simi Bajaj)16. The Time of SlaverySaidiya V. Hartman17. Alien-Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and Millennial CapitalismJean Comaroff and John Comaroff18. The Beautiful Expanding Future of Poverty: Popular Economics as Psychological DefenceAshis Nandy
