Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction The Colonial History of Comparative Method -- 1. The Return to Philology, the End of Weltliteratur -- 2. The Ruins of Babel, the Rise of Philology -- 3. Aryanism, Ursprache, "Literature...
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction The Colonial History of Comparative Method -- 1. The Return to Philology, the End of Weltliteratur -- 2. The Ruins of Babel, the Rise of Philology -- 3. Aryanism, Ursprache, "Literature -- 4. Colonialism and Comparatism -- 5. Chapters in the History of the Philological Revolution -- First Stratum: The Literary The Persian Imperium and Hafiz, 1771 A.D.-1390 A.D. -- 1. The Colonial Grammar of "Literature -- 2. From the Persian Imperium to the British Empire -- 3. The Passions of Literature: Hafiz, 1771 A.D. -- 4. Nietzsche and "World Literature -- 5. Sovereign Law and Sacred Life: Hafiz, 1390 A.D. -- Second Stratum: The Immanent Shari'a and the Mu'allaqāt, 1782 A.D.-550 A.D. -- 1. The Colonial Rule of Law -- 2. The Imperial Institution of Shari'a -- 3. Shari'a from Colonialism to Islamism -- 4. Shari'a from the Qur'ān to Colonialism -- 5. State Models and War Machines I: The Mu'allaqāt, 1782 A.D. -- 6. State Models and War Machines II: The Mu'allaqāt, 550 A.D. -- Third Stratum: The Originary The Dharma and Śakuntalā, 1794 A.D.-1400 B.C. -- 1. From the Indo-European Hypothesis to Hindu Nationalism: The Laws of Manu, 1794 A.D. -- 2. The Idea of Indo-European Civilization: Śakuntalā, 1789 A.D. -- 3. The Dharma and Sacrificial Violence, 100 A.D. to 1400 B.C. -- 4. The Sovereign and the Earth: Śakuntalā, 415 A.D. to 400 B.C. -- Conclusion: Genealogies of Emergency -- 1. The Colonial Matrix of Emergency -- 2. Philology-Colonial Law-Emergency -- 3. The Real State of Emergency, the Tradition of the Oppressed, the Nameless -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. This book locates the origins of the modern humanities in the philological practices of late 18th-century British scholars in colonial India, offering a radical reappraisal of a range of disciplines and excavating hiddenpre-colonial practices that might well help the humanities move beyond their current methodological and political impasses.
