Provincializing Europe

In his book, which has become a part of the canonical list of literature on post -colonial theory, the Deeps of Cracabarty denies the very possibility of any canon. He offers criticism of Eurocentrism from the standpoint that many will seem to European -centric.
Chakrabarty emphasizes that the conversation of both the liberation from the dominance of capital and the struggle for racial and gender equality is possible only from the standpoint of historicism. Such a view of the history of the heritage of education, and it cannot be abandoned without discarding the very idea of ​​social progress. European universalism, however, is blind to the multiplicity of history, to the fact that modernity lives differently in different parts of the world, for example, in a native to the author of Bengal. In addition to conceptual discoveries, the Russian reader in the text of Chakrabarty, in addition to the conceptual discoveries, await unexpected moments of recognizing himself and his culture, which just like the author’s homeland is formed around the dramatic confrontation between “progress” and “tradition”