The End of Conceit : Western Rationality after Postcolonialism.
In this radical book, Patrick Chabal reveals how the future of the West is now inextricably linked to that of the non-West. He argues that the postcolonial challenge exposes the limitation of Western social thought to explain many pressing social and economic issues, domestic and global. The End of...
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Zed Books,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- About the author
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- West and non-West
- Western rationality and postcolonialism
- Rationality, theory and thinking
- ONE The problem
- At home
- Abroad
- TWO Identities
- Who are we?
- Who are the 'others'?
- Why is the West more 'advanced'?
- Why is the non-West a 'threat'?
- THREE Ideas
- Individual
- Society
- Freedom
- Faith
- Market
- Change
- FOUR Interpretations
- To think is to theorise
- To theorise is to explain
- To explain is to act
- To act is to think (again)
- EPILOGUE Three questions
- Secularism
- Human rights
- Sovereignty
- Bibliography
- Index
- About Zed Books.
