ABSTRACT
This book is an original, systematic, and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from 16 languages from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and South America, the essays in the volume explore the entailments of words while discussing their conceptual implications for the humanities and the social sciences everywhere. The essays engage in the work of thinking through words to generate a conceptual vocabulary that will allow for a global conversation on social theory which will be necessarily multilingual.
With essays by scholars, across generations, and from a variety of disciplines – history, anthropology, and philosophy to literature and political theory – this book will be essential reading for scholars, researchers, and students of critical theory and the social sciences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|34 pages
Relation
part II|44 pages
Commensuration
part III|58 pages
The Political
part IV|50 pages
The Social
part V|42 pages
Words in Motion
part VI|30 pages
Rooted Words
part VII|34 pages
Indeterminacy
part VIII|14 pages
Insurrection