Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the by Siraj Ahmed PAPERBACK

Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities\nby Siraj Ahmed\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Siraj Ahmed\nTitle: Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800\nPublisher: Stanford University Press\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781503604025\nISBN-10: 1503604020\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nFor 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 modern humanities silently reinforces a colonial hierarchy. I.