Global Intellectual History (Columbia Studies in International and Global History)

353 Pages·2013·2.388 MB·English

by  Samuel Moyn (editor), Andrew Sartori (editor)

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scholars of intellectual history to incorporate
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samuel moyn is a professor in the Depart- l while also recommending how to confront
models drawn from exceptionally broad expanses of both time
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ment of History at Columbia University. He the challenges and controversies that may
and space. The result is a milestone, a collection of the first importance c
is the editor of Pierre Rosanvallon’s Democ- t History arise, this original resource explains the
for global historians and intellectual historians alike.” u
racy Past and Future and the author of The concepts, concerns, practice, and promise of
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Last Utopia: Human Rights in History. —David Armitage, Harvard University, l “global intellectual history,” featuring essays
author of Foundations of Modern International Thought H by leading scholars on various approaches

andrew sartori is associate professor of that are taking shape across the discipline.
history at New York University. He is the “Conceptually and substantively sophisticated, i The contributors to Global Intellectual
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author of Bengal in Global Concept History: this volume of essays will be widely welcomed by a variety History explore the different ways in which
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Culturalism in the Age of Capital and the co- of historians. The field is a burgeoning one, but there is little to shape o one can think about the production, dis-
editor of From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: it collectively at present. This volume is among the first to focus r semination, and circulation of “global” ideas
India and Pakistan in Transition. and ask whether global intellectual history
on the comparative merits of global intellectual history.” y
can indeed produce legitimate narratives.
—Duncan Kelly, University of Cambridge,
They discuss how intellectuals and ideas fit
author of The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions,
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and Judgement in Modern Political Thought
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columbia stud ies in inter natio nal and gl obal his tory
EditEd by
ISBN: 978-0-231-16048-3
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Samuel Moyn & Andrew Sartori
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Global
Intellectual
History
Columbia Studies in International and Global History
Columbia Studies in International and Global History
Matthew Connelly and Adam McKeown, Series Editors
The idea of “globalization” has become a commonplace, but we lack
good histories that can explain the transnational and global processes
that have shaped the contemporary world. Columbia Studies in Inter-
national and Global History will encourage serious scholarship on
international and global history with an eye to explaining the origins
of the contemporary era. Grounded in empirical research, the titles
in the series will also transcend the usual area boundaries and will
address questions of how history can help us understand contempo-
rary problems, including poverty, inequality, power, political violence,
and accountability beyond the nation-state.
Cemil Aydin, The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of
World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought
Adam M. McKeown, Melancholy Order: Asian Migration
and the Globalization of Borders
Patrick Manning, The African Diaspora:
A History Through Culture
James Rodger Fleming, Fixing the Sky:
The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control
Steven Bryan, The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth
Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire
Heonik Kwon, The Other Cold War
Global
Intellectual
History
EditEd by
Samuel Moyn & Andrew Sartori
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Global intellectual history / edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori.
pages cm. — (Columbia studies in international and global history)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBn 978-0-231-16048-3 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBn 978-0-231-53459-8
(e-book)
1. Intellectual life—Philosophy. 2. Civilization, Modern—Philosophy.
I. Moyn, Samuel, author, editor of compilation. II. Sartori, Andrew,
1969– author, editor of compilation.
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Contents
Preface vii
Part I. A Framework for Debate
1. Approaches to Global Intellectual History 3
SamuEl moyn and andrEw Sartori
Part II. Alternative Options
2. Common Humanity and Cultural Difference on the Sedentary–
nomadic Frontier: Herodotus, Sima Qian, and Ibn Khaldun 33
SiEp Stuurman
3. Cosmopolitanism, vernacularism, and Premodernity 59
ShEldon pollock
4. Joseph Banks’s Intermediaries: Rethinking Global
Cultural exchange 81
VanESSa Smith
5. Global Intellectual History and the History
of Political economy 110
andrEw Sartori
Vi contEntS
6. Conceptual universalization in the
Transnational nineteenth Century 134
chriStophEr l. hill
7. Globalizing the Intellectual History of
the Idea of the “Muslim World” 159
cEmil aydin
8. on the nonglobalization of Ideas 187
SamuEl moyn
9. “Casting the Badge of Inferiority Beneath Black Peoples’ Feet”:
Archiving and Reading the African Past, Present, and
Future in World History 205
mamadou diouf and Jinny praiS
10. Putting Global Intellectual History in Its Place 228
Janaki bakhlE
11. Making and Taking Worlds 254
duncan bEll
Part III. Concluding Reflections
12. How Global Do We Want our Intellectual History to Be? 283
frEdErick coopEr
13. Global Intellectual History: Meanings and Methods 295
Sudipta kaViraJ
Contributors 321
Index 325
Preface
T
his volume began with a conference with the same title, which
took place on April 9 and 10, 2010. The conference was held un-
der the auspices of the new york area’s Consortium for Intellectual
and Cultural History, with generous funding and logistical assistance
from new york university’s erich Maria Remarque Institute. For mak-
ing the event possible, the editors thank Katherine Fleming, Tony Judt,
and Jennifer Ren.
For the participation in this enterprise at the conference, or later,
of Thomas Bender, Manu Bhagavan, Federico Finchelstein, Suzanne
Marchand, Walter Mignolo, Timothy Roberts, Dominic Sachsenmaier,
Jerrold Seigel, and Gary Wilder, the editors also are grateful.
In between the conference and the volume, the Columbia univer-
sity Press editorial staff smoothed the way, with special thanks to our
acquiring editor Anne Routon, her assistant Alison Alexanian, and the
four anonymous readers they commissioned for their astute guidance.
Having much more pressing local business than the exploration of
global intellectual history promised, our families—Amy, Alisa, lily,
Izzie, and Madeleine—did not help with this book but deserve our
thanks anyway, with love and affection.

Global
Intellectual
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