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In recent years, postcolonial theory has emerged as the most influential scholarly explanation for the historical trajectory and social anatomy of the Global South. Its leading proponents - many of whom have become academic superstars - not only reject Enlightenment political and economic theories, especially Marxism, but accuse them of complicity in Europe's imperial project. In this devastating critique, Vivek Chibber offers the most comprehensive response yet to postcolonial theory mounted on behalf of the radical Enlightenment tradition. Focusing on the hugely popular Subaltern Studies project, Chibber carefully examines this project's core arguments about the specificity of the Global South and the deficiencies of Western thought. He shows that their foundational arguments are based on a series of analytical and historical errors, chief among which is a flawed understanding of capitalism's 'universalizing' tendency. Once the real history of capital's universalization is reconstructed, aspects of modernity that appear to be unique to the South turn out to be shared with the North - and the history of the Global South can be explained by the very theories that postcolonial theorists urge us to reject. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital promises to be a turning point in contemporary social theory.
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Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital A provocative intellectual assault on the Subalternists' foundational work. Full description
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In this scrupulous and perceptive analysis, Vivek Chibber successfully shows that the 'universalizing categories of Enlightenment thought' emerge unscathed from the criticisms of postcolonial theorists. Chibber's analysis provides a very valuable account of the actual historical sociology of modern European development, of Indian peasant mobilization and activism, and much else. It is a very significant contribution. --Noam Chomsky
Vivek Chibber has written a stunning critique of postcolonial theory as represented by the Subaltern Studies school. This is a bravura performance that cannot help but shake up our intellectual and political landscape. --Robert Brenner
In this must-read book for students of comparative politics and social theory, Vivek Chibber presents a forceful challenge to the Subaltern Studies school and to postcolonial theory more broadly. This is a major contribution that is bound to reshape debate on these important issues. --Joshua Cohen
Vivek Chibber has written a stunning critique of postcolonial theory as represented by the Subaltern Studies school. This is a bravura performance that cannot help but shake up our intellectual and political landscape. --Robert Brenner
In this must-read book for students of comparative politics and social theory, Vivek Chibber presents a forceful challenge to the Subaltern Studies school and to postcolonial theory more broadly. This is a major contribution that is bound to reshape debate on these important issues. --Joshua Cohen
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- PublisherVerso Books
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1844679772
- ISBN 13 9781844679775
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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