{"product_id":"culture-and-eurocentrism-9781783486342","title":"Culture and Eurocentrism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe conviction that we all have, possess or inhabit a discrete culture, and have done so for centuries, is one of the more dominant default assumptions of our contemporary politico-intellectual moment.   However, the concept of culture as a signifier of subjectivity only entered the modern Anglo-U.S. episteme in the late nineteenth century. Culture and Eurocentrism seeks to account for the term’s relatively recent emergence and movement through the episteme, networked with many other concepts – nature, race, society, imagination, savage, and civilization– at the confluence of several disciplines.  Culture, it contends, doesn’t describe difference but produces it, hierarchically. In so doing, it seeks to recharge postcoloniality, the critique of eurocentrism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lively, provocative and original work. Ismail’s vigorous arguments will stimulate debate across many fields, including postcolonial studies, cultural studies and global studies. -- Rob Nixon, Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professor in the Humanities and the Environment, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003eHow scandalous is eurocentrism?  The question is embarrassing: the larger eurocentrism’s vestiges seem to loom,  the less room for scandal they leave.  Qadri Ismail’s provocation, as sassy as it is erudite, aims a renewed postcolonial studies full in the face of this embarrassment. -- Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Culture as Problem \/ 1.  Culture\/Race\/Nature: Arnold, Tylor \/ 2. (Civil) Society\/Nature: Hobbes, Locke, Macaulay \/ 3. Imagination\/Imitation: Shelley, Hobbes, Macaulay, Kipling, Malinowski. \/ 4. Culture\/s: Williams, Leavis, Spencer \/ 5. ‘”Race”\/Cultures: Du Bois, Fletcher, Boas, Turner, “Jefferson” \/ Conclusion: Modernity, Eurocentrism, Postcoloniality \/ Bibliography \/ Index","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042296856919,"sku":"9781783486342","price":38.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781783486342.jpg?v=1750953819","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/culture-and-eurocentrism-9781783486342","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}