Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities

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 Ahmed
• | Publisher: Stanford University Press
• | Publication Date: December 12, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1503604020
• | ISBN-13: 9781503604025