Beyond Reason: Postcolonial Theory and the Social Sciences

by Sanjay Seth

Book Overview

The knowledge disseminated by universities and mobilized by states to govern populations has been globally dominant for more than a century. It first emerged in the early modern period in Europe and subsequently became globalized through colonialism. Despite the historical and cultural specificity of its origins, modern Western knowledge was thought to have transcended its particularities such that, unlike pre-modern and non-Western knowledges, it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197688950
• ISBN13: 9780197688953
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"