Disciplines of Modernity

Archives, Histories, Anthropologies
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-38940-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 201 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Modern Subjects

Scrupulously based in anthropology and history – and drawing on social theory and critical thought – this book revisits the disciplines, archives, and subjects of modernity.

There are at least three interleaving emphases here. To begin with, the work rethinks institutionalized formations of anthropology and history – together with "archives" at large – as themselves intimating disciplines of modernity. Understood in the widest senses of the terms, these disciplines are constitutively contradictory.

Moreover, the study interrupts familiar projections of modern subjects as molded a priori by a disenchanted calculus of interest and reason. It tracks instead the affective, embodied, and immanent attributes of our varied worlds as formative of subjects of modernity, sown into their substance and spirit.

Finally, running through the book is a querying of entitlement and privilege that underlie social terrains and their scholarly apprehensions – articulating at once distinct elites, pervasive plutocracies, and modern "scholasticisms."

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dube, Saurabh

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor’s Statement

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Rethinking Disciplines

Anthropology and History

3. Figures of Dissonance

Dalit Religions and Anthropological Archives

4. Subjects of Privilege

Entitlements and Affects in Plutocratic Worlds

5. Issues of Immanence

Modern Scholasticism and Academic Entitlement

References

Über Autor(innen)

Saurabh Dube is Professor-Researcher, Distinguished Category, El Colegio de México, Mexico City