Palumbo-Liu / Tanoukhi / Robbins Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World

System, Scale, Culture
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9334-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallersteins world-systems analysis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palumbo-Liu, David

Tanoukhi, Nirvana

Robbins, Bruce

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lee, Richard E.

Moretti, Franco

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: The Most Important Thing Happening 1

Part 1. System and Responsibility

The Modern World-System: Its Structures, Its Geoculture, Its Crisis and Transformation / Richard Lee 27

Blaming the System / Bruce Robbins 41

Part 2. Literature: Restructured, Re-historicized, Re-scaled

World-Systems Analysis, Evolutionary Theory, Weltliteratur / Franco Moretti 67

The Scale of World Literature / Nivrana Tanoukhi 78

Part 3. Respatializing, Remapping, Recognizing

The Space of the World: Beyond State-Centricism? / Neil Brenner 101

Cartographies of Connection: Ocean Maps as Metaphors for Inter-Area History / Kären Wigen 138

What Is a Poem?: The Event of Women and the Modern Girl as Problems in Global or World History / Tani E. Barlow 155

Part 4. Ethics, Otherness, System

Legal System of International Rights / Helen Stacy 187

Rationality and World-Systems Analysis: Fanon and the Impact of the Ethico-Historical / David Palumbo-Liu 202

Thinking about the Humanities / Immanuel Wallerstein 223

The Twilight of Capital? / Gopal Balakrishnan 227

Bibliography 233

Contributors 249

Index 251

Über Autor(innen)

David Palumbo-Liu is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University.Bruce Robbins is the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.Nirvana Tanoukhi received her doctorate in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. She has held fellowships at the Humanities Center and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, both at Harvard University.