The social sciences and humanities worldwide are discovering the
necessity to self-critically reshape their theorizing: The first
critique of social science theorizing calls for 'globalizing', the
second, parallel critique, for 'de-colonizing' social thought.
In his highly topical book, Michael Kuhn discusses why and how the
'globalization' of social science theorizing introduces thinking through
nation state perspectives as an up-to-date methodological must; how the
'de-colonialization' of social science theorizing with the critique of
Eurocentrism and its thinking through space paves the way for the
worldwide implementation of thinking through nation-state views,
transforming the social science world into a multiplicity of
'provincialized' theories; with which odd argumentations the
'indigenization' of thought produces contributions to the ideological
armament of the new states in the so-called 3rd world after their
transformation into the very society system of the former colonizers;
how these indigenized theories make discourses among de-colonized
theories a matter of which 'provincialized' theory manages to rule the
worldwide creation of theories; how the masterminds of globally
de-colonized thinking present imperial thought as guiding theories for
mankind's thinking; what templates for the turn from anti-capitalist
towards nationalistic thinking Historical Materialism has provided, and
what consequences all this has for the social sciences as a voice in
political debates about the world.
