Syed Hussein Alatas and Critical Social Theory: Decolonizing the Captive Mind
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BRILL
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Boston
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2022
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Englisch
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Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Alatas' Work and Legacy -- Chapter 1 Developing a School of Autonomous Knowledge: Thoughts of the Late Syed Hussein Alatas -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The School of Autonomous Knowledge and the Captive Mind -- 3 Islam and Socialism -- 4 Intellectuals and Capable Leaders -- 5 Ideals of Excellence and Ideals of Destruction -- 6 A Tradition of Nurturing the Mind -- 7 Conclusion: Developing the School of Autonomous Knowledge -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 The Midlife of an Idea: Syed Hussein Alatas' Captive Mind after Fifty Years -- 1 Genesis of the Captive Mind -- 2 The Captive Mind Defined -- 3 What Is a Captive Mind? -- 4 What Is a Captive Work? -- 5 Was Alatas an Embodiment of His Own Theories? Did He Practice Non-captive, Creative Social Science? -- 6 Alatas the Imitator, or the Imitated? Captive Alatas? -- 7 Why We Need Captive Mind Theory -- 8 The Captive Mind Misunderstood -- 9 The Captive Mind at Large: From Malaysia to Singapore and the Rest of the World -- 10 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part 2 Theorizing the Captive Mind -- Chapter 3 Alatas on Colonial and Autonomous Knowledge -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Critique of Colonial Knowledge -- 3 The Method of Argumentation: The Sociology of Knowledge Approach -- 4 Intellectual Imperialism and the Captive Mind -- 5 The School of Autonomous Knowledge -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 The Psychological Dynamics of Mental Captivity: Subsequent Conceptual Developments -- 1 Ideological Conditioning and the Three Consciouses -- 2 Beneficia Captivitatis -- 3 Xenos and Ethnos Pathologized -- 4 Proteophobia: Fear of the Ambiguous -- 5 Academic Hypocognition among Western Intellectuals -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography.
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2023-04-12
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