Patrick Chabal was professor in the department of history at King's College London. His books include Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling (2009), Culture Troubles: Politics and the Interpretation of Meaning (2006), and Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument (1999). He died in 2014.

The End of Conceit is a timely book written with insight, commitment, and grace. Studied without being sophistic, deeply personal without being sentimental, it challenges still firmly held prejudices about the rationality of the human and social sciences. Most importantly, it offers a compelling argument that thinking through traditions of the non-Western world can provide critical perspectives from which Europe might reflect upon its contemporary cultural-political predicaments. Patrick Chabal's is a distinctive intelligence from which we have a great deal to learn.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. The problem2. Identities3. Ideas4. InterpretationsEpilogue: Three questionsBibliographyIndex

Patrick Chabal was professor in the department of history at King's College London. His books include Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling (2009), Culture Troubles: Politics and the Interpretation of Meaning (2006), and Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument (1999). He died in 2014.

The End of Conceit is a timely book written with insight, commitment, and grace. Studied without being sophistic, deeply personal without being sentimental, it challenges still firmly held prejudices about the rationality of the human and social sciences. Most importantly, it offers a compelling argument that thinking through traditions of the non-Western world can provide critical perspectives from which Europe might reflect upon its contemporary cultural-political predicaments. Patrick Chabal's is a distinctive intelligence from which we have a great deal to learn.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. The problem2. Identities3. Ideas4. InterpretationsEpilogue: Three questionsBibliographyIndex

Patrick Chabal was professor in the department of history at King's College London. His books include Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling (2009), Culture Troubles: Politics and the Interpretation of Meaning (2006), and Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument (1999). He died in 2014.

The End of Conceit is a timely book written with insight, commitment, and grace. Studied without being sophistic, deeply personal without being sentimental, it challenges still firmly held prejudices about the rationality of the human and social sciences. Most importantly, it offers a compelling argument that thinking through traditions of the non-Western world can provide critical perspectives from which Europe might reflect upon its contemporary cultural-political predicaments. Patrick Chabal's is a distinctive intelligence from which we have a great deal to learn.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. The problem2. Identities3. Ideas4. InterpretationsEpilogue: Three questionsBibliographyIndex