Beyond reason : postcolonial theory and the social sciences /

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Author / Creator:	Seth, Sanjay, 1961- author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Description:	1 online resource (264 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford scholarship online Oxford scholarship online.
Subject:	Social sciences -- Philosophy. Postcolonialism -- Philosophy. Knowledge, Theory of. Reasoning.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12686430

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ISBN:	9780197500613 (ebook) : No price
Notes:	Also issued in print: 2021. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 16, 2020).
Summary:	The knowledge that has dominated the globe for more than a century first emerged in the early modern period in Europe, and subsequently became globalized through colonialism. Despite the historical and cultural specificity of its origins, modern Western knowledge was thought to have transcended its particularities such that, unlike pre-modern and non-Western knowledges, it was 'universal,' or true for all times and places. Deriving its critical energies principally from postcolonial theory, 'Beyond Reason' breaks new ground to argue that the assumed 'truths' of social scientific reason are products of the specific circumstances of Western modernity, and thus that the social sciences are a parochial form of knowledge spuriously claiming universality.
Target Audience:	Specialized.
Other form:	Print version : 9780197500583

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