Archaeology Of Babel: The Colonial Foundation Of The Humanities - 9780804785297

This book locates the origins of the modern humanities in the philological practices of late 18th-century British scholars in colonial India, offering a radical reappraisal of a range of disciplines and excavating hidden pre-colonial practices that might well help the humanities move beyond their current methodological and political impasses.

• | Author: Siraj Dean Ahmed
• | Publisher: Stanford University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 12, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 0804785295
• | ISBN-13: 9780804785297