List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: “A Different Slant”
Chapter 1: (Un)Doing History: Epistemological Alterity and the Middle Age
I. Continuity and Alterity
II. Conceits of History
III. Alterity, Again
Not a Conclusion
Chapter 2: Rethinking Race
I. An Old Debate: Critiquing History of Ideas
II. Race: A Unit-Idea
III. Other Ways of Being in the World
Conclusion
Chapter 3: The Faceless Premodern
I. Individuality: A Teleological History
II. Facing the Premodern
III. Identity and Emotion Without the Face
Conclusion
Conclusion: The Silence of the Past in the History of the Present
Index
Bibliography
Biography
Vanita Seth is an Associate Professor in the Politics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include histories of race, postmodern and postcolonial theory, feminist theory, and early modern political thought. Seth is the author of Europe’s Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500-1900, 2010. She was a former co-editor of Postcolonial Studies and is currently on its International Editorial Board.
