S04E13 - Dipesh Chakrabarty on the Second Decline of the West

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: https://www.uni-wuppertal.de/de/third-mission/wissenschaftskommunikation/jahr100wissen/2025/freiheitskaempfer-frantz-fanon/  on Francis Fukuyama: https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2009/4543  https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Fukuyama  on the metabolic rift: https://www.nature.com/nature-index/topics/l4/metabolic-rift-and-political-economy-of-environmental-crises  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. https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life?srsltid=AfmBOorZp80RtsBGkBSF7TG7CLMRaihO5UTnsFE9V2XALwQ4tIE6mD6r  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: https://iep.utm.edu/sen-cap/  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. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-habermas-lexicon/colonization-of-the-lifeworld/36E8421628B4E1914F7E675B31977ADC  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. 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