Free Download Dietrich Jung, "Postcolonialism and Social Theory in Arabic: Intellectual Traditions and Historical Entanglements "
English | ISBN: 3031636481 | 2024 | 219 pages | EPUB, PDF | 676 KB + 4 MB
Since Edward Said’s publication of Orientalism in 1978, so-called Western social theory and its claim to universal analytical validity has been exposed to severe criticism. Scholars from the field of postcolonial studies were most vocal in criticizing the Eurocentric nature of the conceptual apparatus of the social sciences. Indeed, contemporary social theory almost exclusively refers to the historical experiences of Western Europe and North America. Yet what is the alternative to these Eurocentric frameworks? Many postcolonial critics use very few non-English sources and tend to focus on the deconstruction of European and American theories.
