Cosmopolitan Thought Zones

Bose, Sugata [u.a.] (Hrsg.):
Cosmopolitan thought zones : South Asia and the global circulation of ideas / ed. by Sugata Bose and Kris Manjapra. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - xi, 307 S. - (The Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series)
ISBN 978-0-230-24337-8
US$ 93,50 / £ 55,00
DDC: 954.03

Beschreibung
This volume represents a major contribution to the new field of South Asian intellectual history from a global perspective. It critically examines forms of South Asian cosmopolitanism in the era of anti-colonial agitation. Starting from the assertion that the history of political ideas in South Asia can neither be pictured as the contestation between well-defined 'local' and 'global' epistemes, nor as the battle between 'patriotic' and 'internationalist' perspectives, these essays throw unprecedented light on the intermediate spaces of intellectual encounter and interchange that linked South Asian thinkers to counterparts and conversations worldwide from the late nineteenth century through to independence. By discarding presuppositions about hermetically-sealed local traditions endangered by 'Westernizing' forces, and also by undoing the stubborn tether that ties the study of colonial South Asian thought to the British metropolis alone, the travels of intellectuals that spanned the Indian and Pacific Oceans, from Johannesburg to Tokyo, or the distance from Calcutta to New York, or Bombay to Rome, emerge as significant trajectories for the study of South Asian history within a global horizon. Lateral interactions between colonized groups worldwide, and with other Europes outside Britain and minority Americas constitute a largely unexplored archive for the study of South Asian history. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
K. Manjapra: Introduction
PART I: THEORY AND METHODS
   A. Sen: Is Nationalism a Boon or a Curse?
   S. Tagore: Benjamin in Bengal: Cosmopolitanism and Historical Primacy
   S. Kaviraj: Said and the History of Ideas
PART II: DIFFERENT UNIVERSALISMS
   A. Jalal: Iqbal on Nietzsche: A Transcultural Dialogue
   S. Bose: Different Universalisms, Colorful Cosmopolitanisms: The Global Imagination of the Colonized
   I. Hofmeyr: Gandhi's Printing Press: Indian Ocean Print Cultures and Cosmopolitanims
PART III: MODERNIST THOUGHT ZONES
   D. Menon: A Local Cosmopolitan: 'Kesari' Balakrishna Pillai and the Invention of Europe for a Modern Kerala
   K. Manjapra: The Communist Ecumene and Transcolonial Recognition
   B. Zachariah: Rethinking (the absence of) Fascism in India, c. 1922-1945
PART IV: HISTORIES OF CONNECTION
   N. Slate: A Coloured Cosmopolitanism: Cedric Dover's Reading of the Afro-Asian World
   M. Prayer: Creative India and the World: Bengali Internationalism and Italy in the Interwar Period
   S. Marchand: On Orientalism and Iconoclasm: German Scholarship's Challenge to the Saidian Model

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SUGATA BOSE is Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University, USA and Director of the South Asia Initiative. He is the author of A Hundred Horizons: the Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire (Harvard University Press, 2006.). Profile page.
KRIS MANJAPRA is Assistant Professor of History at Tufts University, USA. He was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at UCLA, 2007-2008 after completing his doctoral work at Harvard. Manjapra recently published his first book, M.N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism (Routledge India, 2009). Profile page.

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