The incipience of the future: language and the work of humility in 19-century Western India
The paper attends to three instances in 19-century Marathi history that point to an older experience of otherness or being-prone. The attempt is to initiate a history of the everyday that does not assume the contours of Enlightenment publicity, but that harks back to an older experience of silence,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
[2019]
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| In: |
Religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 49, Issue: 3, Pages: 481-500 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Marathi
/ Folk religion
/ Everyday life
/ Modesty
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| Further subjects: | B
Humility
B Publicity B Religion B Millennial B Everyday B quotidian B Vernacular B Public B Alterity |
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| Summary: | The paper attends to three instances in 19-century Marathi history that point to an older experience of otherness or being-prone. The attempt is to initiate a history of the everyday that does not assume the contours of Enlightenment publicity, but that harks back to an older experience of silence, reticence and withdrawal. Rather than see these as marks of an inner life, the paper traces them back to a crisis of values (primitive nihilism in the context of the modern), one wherein being-prone can be understood in the three instances as the internal fold of a future transformed, language as receptivity and a stance of humility. |
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| ISSN: | 1096-1151 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2019.1622840 |