S04E13 - Dipesh Chakrabarty on the Second Decline of the West
Beschreibung der Episode
Dipesh Chakrabarty on the Second Decline of the West.
Shownotes Dipesh Chakrabarty
Dipesh Chakrabarty at the University of Chicago:
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/dipesh-chakrabarty
Chakrabarty, D. (2008). Provincializing Europe: postcolonial thought and historical difference-New edition. Princeton university press.
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/doi/10.1515/9781400828654/html
Chakrabarty, D. (2009). The climate of history: Four theses. Critical inquiry, 35(2), 197-222.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/596640
Dipesh Chakrabarty at the Benjamin Lectures ‘A Second Decline of the West?’ at the Centre for Social Critique in Berlin:
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/benjamin_lectures/a-second-decline-of-the-west/
on the Centre for Social Critique in Berlin:
https://www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/de/arbeitsbereiche/jaeggi/hscberlin/hscberlin
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/
Chakrabarty, D. (2021). The climate of history in a planetary age. University of Chicago Press.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo8642262.html
on Frantz Fanon:
on Francis Fukuyama:
https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2009/4543
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Fukuyama
on the metabolic rift:
Clark, B., & Bellamy Foster, J. (2026). The Metabolic Rift and the Dialectics of Ecology.
https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197852729.003.0024
Moore, J. W. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital.
Moore, J. W. (2016). The rise of cheap nature.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/sociology_fac/2/
Hegel’s Philosophy of History Lectures:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hi/hiconten.htm
on Walter Benjamin’s ‘Jetztzeit’:
https://jetztzeit.blog/2019/05/23/weshalb-jetzt-zeit/
https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100020224
Fanon, F. (1963). The wretched of the earth. New York: Grove press.
https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-wretched-of-the-earth/
on Subaltern studies:
Guha, R., & Spivak, G. C. (Eds.). (1988). Selected subaltern studies. Oxford University Press.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/selected-subaltern-studies-9780195052893?cc=at&lang=en&
Chakrabarty, D. (2000). A small history of subaltern studies. A companion to postcolonial studies, 467-485.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228020062_A_Small_History_of_Subaltern_Studies
on Gramsci's concept of the historic bloc:
https://polsci.institute/political-theory/gramsci-historic-bloc-base-superstructure/
Blumenberg, H. (1985). The legitimacy of the modern age. MIT press.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262521055/the-legitimacy-of-the-modern-age/
Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum on the Capability Approach:
Sen, A. (1999). Development as freedom. Oxford: Oxford university press.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/development-as-freedom-9780192893307?lang=en&cc=nl
Serres, M. (1995). The natural contract. University of Michigan press.
https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Natural-Contract
Latour, B. (2004). Politics of Nature. Harvard University Press.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674013476
Dipesh Chakrabarty at the Benjamin Lectures on ‘provincializing europe’ and ‘provincializing humans’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjXCIZyxgWo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9sI3NRbOYA
Arendt, H. (1958). The human condition.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo29137972.html
on Habermas on the colonization of the lifeworld by instrumental rationality:
Silva, F. G. (2019). Colonization of the Lifeworld. In A. Allen & E. Mendieta (Eds.), The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon (pp. 36–39). chapter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Latour, B. & Chakrabarty, D. (2020). Conflicts of Planetary Proportion – A Conversation. Journal of the Philosophy of History 14 (3):419-454.
https://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/170-PLANETARY-PROPORTIONS.pdf
Saito, K. (2024). Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism can save the Earth. W&N.
https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/kohei-saito/slow-down/9781399612999/
Haff, Peter K. (2023). Technosphere. In Nathanaël Wallenhorst & Christoph Wulf, Handbook of the Anthropocene. Cham: Springer Verlag. pp. 537-541.
https://philarchive.org/rec/HAFTXX
Heron, K., Milburn, K. and Russell, B. (2025). Radical Abundance. How to Win a Green Democratic Future. Pluto Books.
https://www.plutobooks.com/product/radical-abundance/
Jaeggi, R. (2016). Alienation. Columbia University Press.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/alienation/9780231151986/
Jaeggi, R. (2025). Progress and regression. Harvard University Press.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674298019
Staab, P. (2025). Systemic Crisis. Legitimation Crisis in Green Capitalism. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/philipp-staab-systemic-crisis-fr-9783518128237
Connolly, W. E. (2017). Facing the Planetary. Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming. Duke University Press.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/facing-the-planetary
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