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مواطن الحداثة: مقالات في صحوة دراسات التابع
كيف يفكر مثقفو العالم الثالث بالمصاعب التي تواجه الحداثة في بلدانهم؟ وما المشكلات المشتركة التي يقابلها الأنثروبولوجيون ومؤرخو ما بعد الحداثة في هذه البلدان؟ وهل يمكن التوصل إلى حداثة ما بعد استعمارية تتخطى أخطاء حداثة ما بعد التنوير الأوروبي؟
كل هذه الأسئلة وضعها مؤلف الكتاب نصب عينيه وهو يبحث في تجربة تقسيم الهند والحرب الطائفية التي اندلعت فيها، نتيجة تعدديتها اللغوية والدينية والثقافية، وبدءاً من اللحظات الأولى في نظرة المستعمر الأبيض للهند، وصولاً إلى العنف الطائفي الذي يصوره المؤلف بوصفه مزيجاً من الإنسانية واللاإنسانية، يتابع المؤلف فكرة توطين الحداثة في الهند، وإذ يتضح التفاوت الصارخ بين التابع، أي الإنسان البسيط المهمش في رؤيته التقليدية، والمثقف الذي يتبنى رؤية التنوير الأوروبي المتعالي، يقترح المؤلف على قرائه حداثة مغايرة، تحترم التقاليد المحلية، وتتأصل فيها، وتنفتح على الرؤية الإنسانية، ولا تقع أسيرة أحضان التنوير الأوروبي، تلك التي يسميها "حداثة ما بعد الاستعمار".
كل هذه الأسئلة وضعها مؤلف الكتاب نصب عينيه وهو يبحث في تجربة تقسيم الهند والحرب الطائفية التي اندلعت فيها، نتيجة تعدديتها اللغوية والدينية والثقافية، وبدءاً من اللحظات الأولى في نظرة المستعمر الأبيض للهند، وصولاً إلى العنف الطائفي الذي يصوره المؤلف بوصفه مزيجاً من الإنسانية واللاإنسانية، يتابع المؤلف فكرة توطين الحداثة في الهند، وإذ يتضح التفاوت الصارخ بين التابع، أي الإنسان البسيط المهمش في رؤيته التقليدية، والمثقف الذي يتبنى رؤية التنوير الأوروبي المتعالي، يقترح المؤلف على قرائه حداثة مغايرة، تحترم التقاليد المحلية، وتتأصل فيها، وتنفتح على الرؤية الإنسانية، ولا تقع أسيرة أحضان التنوير الأوروبي، تلك التي يسميها "حداثة ما بعد الاستعمار".
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First published January 1, 2002
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About the author
Dipesh Chakrabarty
49 books71 followersDipesh Chakrabarty (b. 1948) is a Bengali historian who has also made contributions to postcolonial theory and subaltern studies.
He attended Presidency College of the University of Calcutta, where he received his undergraduate degree in physics. He also received a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. Later he moved on to the Australian National University in Canberra, from where he earned a PhD in history.
He is currently the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College at the University of Chicago. He was a visiting faculty at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Chakrabarty also serves as a contributing editor for Public Culture, an academic journal published by Duke University Press.
He was a member of the Subaltern Studies collective. He has recently made important contributions to the intersections between history and postcolonial theory (Provincializing Europe [PE]), which continues and revises his earlier historical work on working-class history in Bengal (Rethinking Working-Class History). PE adds considerably to the debate of how postcolonial discourse engages in the writing of history (e.g., Robert J. C. Young's "White Mythologies"), critiquing historicism, which is intimately related to the West's notion of linear time. Chakrabarty argues that Western historiography's historicism universalizes liberalism, projecting it to all ends of the map. He suggests that, under the rubric of historicism, the end-goal of every society is to develop towards nationalism.
In 2011 he received an Honorary degree from the University of Antwerp.
He attended Presidency College of the University of Calcutta, where he received his undergraduate degree in physics. He also received a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. Later he moved on to the Australian National University in Canberra, from where he earned a PhD in history.
He is currently the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College at the University of Chicago. He was a visiting faculty at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Chakrabarty also serves as a contributing editor for Public Culture, an academic journal published by Duke University Press.
He was a member of the Subaltern Studies collective. He has recently made important contributions to the intersections between history and postcolonial theory (Provincializing Europe [PE]), which continues and revises his earlier historical work on working-class history in Bengal (Rethinking Working-Class History). PE adds considerably to the debate of how postcolonial discourse engages in the writing of history (e.g., Robert J. C. Young's "White Mythologies"), critiquing historicism, which is intimately related to the West's notion of linear time. Chakrabarty argues that Western historiography's historicism universalizes liberalism, projecting it to all ends of the map. He suggests that, under the rubric of historicism, the end-goal of every society is to develop towards nationalism.
In 2011 he received an Honorary degree from the University of Antwerp.
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December 30, 2018
In nine essays, divided in three parts Prof Chakrabarty writes a "small history" of subaltern studies, replies to Sumit Sarkar's criticism, critiques Ashis Nandy's "decisionism" and then proceeds to trace different "habitations of modernity" in the postcolonial reception of colonial traditions, criticises "hyperrationalism" and participates in ethical conversations with modern indian political desires. In the last part he also deals with the issue of communal violence and focuses on myth and individual and collective memories.
August 19, 2019
مدخل عظيم لتيار حداثي مهم بالعالم الثالث
September 6, 2020
إصدار مهم لمجال مجتمعي غير مطروق بعالمنا العربي
الخطاب مابعد حداثي يسأل من هم التابعون الواقعون
بمجال الإستعمار الثقافي للشعوب
الخطاب مابعد حداثي يسأل من هم التابعون الواقعون
بمجال الإستعمار الثقافي للشعوب
October 27, 2024
Chakrabarty’s style of writing is very clear and it adds perfectly to the intresting new perspective he adds to history.
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