The Crises of Civilization

Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, US. His books include Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 (1989), Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000), and The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth ( 2015). He is a founding member of the editorial collective Subaltern Studies and a consulting editor of Critical Inquiry. He also holds an honorary D. Litt degree from the University of London (2010), and an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Antwerp (2011). He received the 2014 Toynbee Prize for his contributions to global history and delivered the Tanner Lectures in Human Values at Yale in 2015.

Preface

Introduction

Communing with Magpies

I. Global Worlds

1. Belatedness As Possibility: The Subaltern Subject
and the Problem of Repetition in World History

2. Can Political Economy be Postcolonial? A Note

3. An Anti-Colonial History of Postcolonial Thought
A Tribute to Greg Dening

4. From Civilization to Globalization:
The 'West' as A Shifting Signifier in Indian Modernity

5. Friendships in the Shadow of Empire:
Tagore's Reception in Chicago, c. 1913-1932

6. Romantic Archives:
Literature and the Politics of Identity in Bengal

7. Reading Fanon: What Use is Utopian Thought?

II. The Planetary Human

8. The Climate of History: Four Theses

9. On Some Rifts in Contemporary Thinking on Climate Change

10. Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change

11. Interview: Dipesh Chakrabarty with Actuel Marx

12. Interview: Dipesh Chakrabarty with Katrin Klingan


Select Bibliography of Published Works

Index
About the Author