History at the limit of world-history
The past is not just, as has been famously said, another country with foreign customs: it is a contested and colonized terrain. Indigenous histories have been expropriated, eclipsed, sometimes even wholly eradicated, in the service of imperialist aims buttressed by a distinctly Western philosophy of...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
2002.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Italian Academy lectures. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38519379*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half title; Italian Academy Lectures; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Historicality and the Prose of the World; 3. The Prose of History, or The Invention of World-History; 4. Experience, Wonder, and the Pathos of Historicality; 5. Epilogue: The Poverty of Historiography-a Poet's Reproach; Appendix: Historicality in Literature by Rabindranath Tagore; Notes; Glossary; Index.
