In the seventeenth century, political economy was largely a discourse of trade. Society did not generally fall within the range of epistemic objects to which political economy addressed itself as a discourse -- despite the fact that the social was receiving sophisticated thematization in contemporary political theory. How, then, did political economy transform into a social science? How did it produce the space for social analysis out of the repertoire of concepts it had developed over the course of its first century of elaboration?
Andrew Sartori is professor of South Asian history at New York University. He is the author of Liberalism in Empire: An Alternative History (University of California Press, 2014) and Bengal in Global Concept History: Culturalism in the Age of Capital (University of Chicago Press, 2008), as well as of several edited volumes, including Global Intellectual History (Columbia University Press, 2013). He also serves as one of the editors of a new journal from the University of Chicago Press, Critical Historical Studies.
Colloquium 3:00-5:00 Graduate Seminar 1:00-2:45
