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Eurocentrism is the current object of a global critique, which has the potential to be as significant as Marxist and Feminist critiques have been. This critique focuses on and dissects the paradigms that have emanated from the European Enlightenment.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Received Theory, Science, and Eurocentrism
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Perspectives on Africa, West, South, and East Asia
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Perspectives on the West: Europe and the Americas
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Eurocentrism: Policy and Prospects
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Reviews
"An exciting collection of papers on the distortions of Eurocentric analyses, one that points the way forward to more truly universalistic structures of knowledge." - Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scholar, Yale University
"A critique in the proper sense of the term: challenges conventional orthodoxy and provides an alternative, more enlightened world view" - Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History,Harvard University
About the authors
RAJANI KANNEPALLI KANTH is a Visting Fellow at Harvard University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Challenge of Eurocentrism
Book Subtitle: Global Perspectives, Policy, and Prospects
Editors: Rajani Kannepalli Kanth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230620896
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62089-6Published: 26 April 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 259
Topics: International Economics, Economic History