Archaeology of Babel The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities

• Main Author: Ahmed, Siraj (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Stanford Stanford University Press 2018
• Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; Sir William Jones;comparative literature;World Literature;philology;colonial law;Islam;Hinduism;British India;critical method;historicism
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For more than three decades, preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a return to philology as the indispensable basis of critical method in the humanities. Against such calls, this book argues that the privilege philology has always enjoyed within the m...