Future Histories· Staffel 4· Folge 13
S04E13 - Dipesh Chakrabarty on the Second Decline of the West
Sonntag, 13. September 2026 · 1 h 59
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Dipesh Chakrabarty on the Second Decline of the West.
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Dipesh Chakrabarty at the University of Chicago:
history.uchicago.edu/directory/dipesh-chakraba…
Chakrabarty, D. (2008). Provincializing Europe: postcolonial thought and historical difference-New edition. Princeton university press.
degruyterbrill.com/de/document/doi/10.1515/978…
Chakrabarty, D. (2009). The climate of history: Four theses. Critical inquiry, 35(2), 197-222.
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:
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/benjamin_lectures…
on the Centre for Social Critique in Berlin:
philosophie.hu-berlin.de/de/arbeitsbereiche/ja…
Chakrabarty, D. (2021). The climate of history in a planetary age. University of Chicago Press.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo…
on Frantz Fanon:
uni-wuppertal.de/de/third-mission/wissenschaft…
on Francis Fukuyama:
zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2009/4543
britannica.com/biography/Francis-Fukuyama
on the metabolic rift:
nature.com/nature-index/topics/l4/metabolic-ri…
Clark, B., & Bellamy Foster, J. (2026). The Metabolic Rift and the Dialectics of Ecology.
doi.org/10.1093/9780197852729.003.0024
Moore, J. W. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital.
versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-w…
Moore, J. W. (2016). The rise of cheap nature.
orb.binghamton.edu/sociology_fac/2
Hegel’s Philosophy of History Lectures:
marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hi/…
on Walter Benjamin’s ‘Jetztzeit’:
jetztzeit.blog/2019/05/23/weshalb-jetzt-zeit
oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authori…
Fanon, F. (1963). The wretched of the earth. New York: Grove press.
groveatlantic.com/book/the-wretched-of-the-earth
on Subaltern studies:
Guha, R., & Spivak, G. C. (Eds.). (1988). Selected subaltern studies. Oxford University Press.
global.oup.com/academic/product/selected-subal…;
Chakrabarty, D. (2000). A small history of subaltern studies. A companion to postcolonial studies, 467-485.
researchgate.net/publication/228020062_A_Small…
on Gramsci's concept of the historic bloc:
polsci.institute/political-theory/gramsci-hist…
Blumenberg, H. (1985). The legitimacy of the modern age. MIT press.
mitpress.mit.edu/9780262521055/the-legitimacy-…
Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum on the Capability Approach:
Sen, A. (1999). Development as freedom. Oxford: Oxford university press.
global.oup.com/academic/product/development-as…
Serres, M. (1995). The natural contract. University of Michigan press.
press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Natural-Contract
Latour, B. (2004). Politics of Nature. Harvard University Press.
hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674013476
Dipesh Chakrabarty at the Benjamin Lectures on ‘provincializing europe’ and ‘provincializing humans’:
youtube.com/watch?v=YjXCIZyxgWo
youtube.com/watch?v=i9sI3NRbOYA
Arendt, H. (1958). The human condition.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo…
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.
cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-haberma…
Latour, B. & Chakrabarty, D. (2020). Conflicts of Planetary Proportion – A Conversation. Journal of the Philosophy of History 14 (3):419-454.
bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/170-PLANET…
Saito, K. (2024). Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism can save the Earth. W&N.
weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/kohei-saito…
Haff, Peter K. (2023). Technosphere. In Nathanaël Wallenhorst & Christoph Wulf, Handbook of the Anthropocene. Cham: Springer Verlag. pp. 537-541.
Heron, K., Milburn, K. and Russell, B. (2025). Radical Abundance. How to Win a Green Democratic Future. Pluto Books.
plutobooks.com/product/radical-abundance
Jaeggi, R. (2016). Alienation. Columbia University Press.
cup.columbia.edu/book/alienation/9780231151986
Jaeggi, R. (2025). Progress and regression. Harvard University Press.
hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674298019
Staab, P. (2025). Systemic Crisis. Legitimation Crisis in Green Capitalism. Suhrkamp.
suhrkamp.de/rights/book/philipp-staab-systemic…
Connolly, W. E. (2017). Facing the Planetary. Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming. Duke University Press.
dukeupress.edu/facing-the-planetary
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