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T�tulo: Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities
Editor: Stanford University Press
Fecha de publicaci�n: 2018
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 10: 1503604020
ISBN 13: 9781503604025
Encuadernaci�n: Pictorial Softcover. Paperback
Edici�n: 1st Edition
Estado: Fine
Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket, as Issued

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For more than three decades, preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a return to philology as the indispensable basis of critical method in the humanities. Against such calls, this book argues that the privilege philology has always enjoyed within the modern humanities silently reinforces a colonial hierarchy. In fact, each of philology's foundational innovations originally served British rule in India.

Tracing an unacknowledged history that extends from British Orientalist Sir William Jones to Palestinian American intellectual Edward Said and beyond, Archaeology of Babel excavates the epistemic transformation that was engendered on a global scale by the colonial reconstruction of native languages, literatures, and law. In the process, it reveals the extent to which even postcolonial studies and European philosophy―not to mention discourses as disparate as Islamic fundamentalism, Hindu nationalism, and global environmentalism―are the progeny of colonial rule. Going further, it unearths the alternate concepts of language and literature that were lost along the way and issues its own call for humanists to reckon with the politics of the philological practices to which they now return.

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Siraj Ahmed is Associate Professor in the Ph.D. Program in English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and in the Department of English and the Program in Comparative Literature at Lehman College. He is the author of The Stillbirth of Capital: Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India (Stanford University Press, 2012).

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