Rule of Experts

Timothy Mitchell, Professor, Department of Middle East and Asian Studies, Columbia University, is the author of Colonising Egypt (California, 1991, with a new preface), and editor of Questions of Modernity (2000).

出版者:University of California Press

作者:Timothy Mitchell

页数:423

出版时间:2002-11

价格:CAD 35.91

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780520232624

图书标签:历史经济社会学中东人类学美国近代史政治Timothy_Mitchell

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Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world?

Rule of Experts examines these questions through a series of interrelated essays focused on Egypt in the twentieth century. These explore the way malaria, sugar cane, war, and nationalism interacted to produce the techno-politics of the modern Egyptian state; the forms of debt, discipline, and violence that founded the institution of private property; the methods of measurement, circulation, and exchange that produced the novel idea of a national "economy," yet made its accurate representation impossible; the stereotypes and plagiarisms that created the scholarly image of the Egyptian peasant; and the interaction of social logics, horticultural imperatives, powers of desire, and political forces that turned programs of economic reform in unanticipated directions.

Mitchell is a widely known political theorist and one of the most innovative writers on the Middle East. He provides a rich examination of the forms of reason, power, and expertise that characterize contemporary politics. Together, these intellectually provocative essays will challenge a broad spectrum of readers to think harder, more critically, and more politically about history, power, and theory.

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Another view in revealing the discourse of development.

就个人而言，前三章最有趣味，也最细密，用了两周才看完。最后三章期望最高，写得却像无趣政论。算是历史学家里，对于经济学这一概念钻研最为有趣的一位了罢，可沿着他的脉络再走下去，就得读Foucault，Derrida，Simmel或Bruno等艰深怪物了，怕怕....先去海边晒太阳了。

此书让我基本理解了articulate这个单词的意思，这是最大的收获。除此之外，对于这类将概念和知识本身作为研究对象的后现代作品，我虽然可以慢慢学着欣赏，但至今为止还没有真正喜欢上。关键问题还是那个，总觉得这些东西善于打破一个旧框架，而不善于为它打破的这个旧框架寻找更好的替代物，每每想到这里，就觉得这些研究很象牙塔，虽然精致，但总有些乏味。

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the evil of technocrats...