Theory and Praxis: Reflections on the Colonization of Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Murzban Jal (editor), Jyoti Bawane (editor)

Publisher: Routledge India
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 263
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book proposes a New Enlightenment – a new way of looking at the non-Western world. Breaking new ground, the essays chart a course beyond Eurocentric discourses (which completely ignore the contributions of Asia, Africa and Latin-America) and forms of nativism (which are usually ethnocentric discourses).

The volume:

Focuses on the historical aspects of knowledge-production and its colonization;

Examines the genre of multilinear histories that displaces hegemonic Eurocentric discourses;

Enlarges the scope of multilinear historicism whereby Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas are drawn in a new humanistic knowledge system;

Studies how colonization is resisted in both the non-Western and Western world.

Lucid and engaging, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of social theory, education, politics and public policy.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of contributors
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction: on the New Enlightenment
Part I Reflections on history
1 Beyond unilinear evolutionism: rethinking Marx’s relevance for the non-Western world
2 Marx at the margins: exiting Eurocentrism, entering global revolution
3 Marxism and Islam
Part II Decolonizing education
4 Humanism and science
5 Education, utopia and ideology
6 Education and national development
7 Aryabhata Dalit, his philosophy of ganita, and its contemporary applications
Part III Inequality and the logic of exclusion
8 Social inclusion and exclusion: the Sinti and Roma minority in the European Union
9 Democracy in Indian classrooms: equalizing educational opportunities
10 Reimagining reservation
Part IV Philosophy, culture and politics
11 KnowEthics: a philosophical play in three acts
12 Democracy and the paranoiac strategy of pseudo-threats: knowledge, law and violence in light of Walter Benjamin’s ‘Critique of Violence’
13 Education and the formation of the multitude
Index

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