Dipesh Chakrabarty

The Crises of Civilization: Exploring Global and Planetary Histories

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After the murderous twentieth century and the long twilight of the European empires, humanity has confronted both a crisis of globalization and a crisis of climate. This book explores the challenges posed by colonialism's end, globalization, and climate change to our ideas of civilization, history, justice, nature, and humanity itself.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-948673-1
EAN: 9780199486731
Produktnummer: 29550210
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 321 S.
Masse: H22.6 cm x B14.9 cm x D2.5 cm 483 g
Gewicht: 483

Über den Autor

Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, US. His books include Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 (1989), Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000), and The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth ( 2015).He is a founding member of the editorial collective Subaltern Studies and a consulting editor of Critical Inquiry. He also holds an honorary D. Litt degree from the University of London (2010), and an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Antwerp (2011). He received the 2014 Toynbee Prize for his contributions to global history and delivered the Tanner Lectures in Human Values at Yale in 2015.