| Culture and Eurocentrism Contributor(s): Ismail, Qadri (Author) |
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ISBN: 1783486333 ISBN-13: 9781783486335 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $165.33 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction - Social Science | Human Geography - Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory |
| Dewey: 909.8 |
| LCCN: 2015026668 |
| Series: Disruptions |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.6" W x 8.5" (1.05 lbs) 238 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ismail, Qadri: - Qadri Ismail is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. |