Sheldon Pollock

Biographic Data

ID3594809
NAMESheldon Pollock
GIVEN NAMESSheldon
FAMILY NAMEPollock
SIGNATUREPOLLOCK S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Chicago
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS53
TOTAL CITATIONS461
AUTHOR COUNT49
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX9

  • Cosmopolitanisms

    Open AccessSheldon Pollock, Homi Bhabha et al.CHAPTERCosmopolitanism2020

  • Small Philology and Large Philology

    Sheldon PollockARTICLEComparative Studies of South Asia…2018References: 3

    Research Article| May 01 2018 Small Philology and Large Philology Sheldon Pollock Sheldon Pollock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 122–127. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4390027 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Sheldon Pollock; Small Philology and Large Philology. Comparative Studies of S…

  • The Columbia Global Humanities Project

    Sheldon PollockARTICLEComparative Studies of South Asia…2017

    The past fifty years have seen a profound endangerment of the world's humanities capacity. While the crisis is far from unknown in the United States it is acute across the global south. Columbia University's Global Humanities Project assembled a group of scholars and administrators to provide preliminary reports on the condition of the humanities in Africa, the Arab World, South Asia, and China and Taiwan. The picture is, by and large, grim

  • The Humanities in South Asia Today

    Sheldon PollockARTICLEComparative Studies of South Asia…2017

    Pollock introduces the essays of two contributors to the roundtable on the global humanities, Sundar Sarukkai and Syed Nomanul Haq, who focus on the state of humanities in India and Pakistan, respectively

  • Areas, Disciplines, and the Goals of Inquiry

    Open AccessSheldon PollockARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies2016References: 14

    From our present-day vantage point, the founding era of South Asian studies at Chicago looks like an age of unalloyed conceptual and political innocence. Area identities were given, disciplinary formations were unquestioned, the purposes of scholarship were self-evident, and the future was roseate. Half a century later, common sense on all these questions has vanished, and where we go from here is an entirely open question, requiring open and sus…

  • World Philology

    Sheldon I Pollock, Sheldon Pollock et al.BOOKWorld Philology2015

    Philology—the discipline of making sense of texts—is enjoying a renaissance within academia. World Philology charts the evolution of philology across the many cultures and time periods in which it has been practiced and demonstrates how this branch of knowledge, like philosophy and mathematics, is essential to human understanding.

  • Liberating Philology

    Sheldon PollockARTICLEVerge Studies in Global Asias2015

    16 A & Q of whom watch it on their smart phones and like to comment on it via microblogs—is being made available for Chinese to watch via the YouTube -like Youku service before being released on American television. As interesting as things like shifts in academic fashions, terminologies, and the contours of fields may be, they sometimes pale when placed beside the recent changes in technologies and geopolitical configurations that, among many ot…

  • Philology in three dimensions

    Open AccessSheldon PollockARTICLEpostmedieval a journal of…2014Cited by: 5References: 9

  • Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia

    Open AccessGuha, Sumit Guha et al.BOOKForms of Knowledge in Early…2011

  • Crisis in the Classics

    Sheldon PollockARTICLESocial research2011Cited by: 1

    With the loss of knowledge of its historical languages, India stands to lose access to three thousand years of some of the most accomplished thought ever produced. In this essay I reflect on how this cultural ecocide came about, why it should be deemed a threat worthy of our most serious attention, and what might be done to reverse it

  • Future Philology? The Fate of a Soft Science in a Hard World

    Sheldon PollockARTICLECritical Inquiry2009Cited by: 38References: 10

  • Is There an Indian Intellectual History? Introduction to “Theory and Method in Indian Intellectual History

    Open AccessSheldon PollockARTICLEJournal of Indian Philosophy2008Cited by: 7References: 9

  • Theory and Method in Indian Intellectual History

    Open AccessJan Houben, Jan E M Houben et al.ARTICLEJournal of Indian Philosophy2008Cited by: 4References: 4

  • Pretextures of Time

    Open AccessSheldon PollockARTICLEHistory and Theory2007Cited by: 18References: 3

    Textures of Time is a rich and challenging book that raises a host of important and hard questions about historical narrative, form, and style; the sociology of texts; and the core problem of ascertaining historical truth. Two that pertain to the book's main claims are of special interest to nonspecialist readers: Is register or style-"texture"-necessarily and everywhere diagnostic of "history"? Does a new kind of "historical consciousness" emerg…

  • The Language of the Gods in the World of Men

    Sheldon PollockBOOKLanguage of the Gods in the World…2006

    In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity. He traces the two great moments of its transformation: the first around the beginning of the Common Era, when Sanskrit, long a sacred language, was reinvented as a code for literary and political expression, the start of an amazing career that saw Sanskrit literary culture spread f…

  • Axialism and Empire

    Sheldon PollockCHAPTERAxial Civilizations and World…2005

  • Working Papers on Sanskrit Knowledge-Systems on the Eve of Colonialism, Ii

    Open AccessSheldon PollockARTICLEJournal of Indian Philosophy2005

  • The Transformation of Culture-Power in Indo-Europe, 1000-1300

    Sheldon PollockCHAPTEREurasian Transformations, Tenth…2004

    While it is no easy matter to identify convincing and coherent Eurasia-wide transformations during the early centuries of the second millennium (section 1), it is possible to demonstrate unequivocally that much of South Asia and Western Europe underwent comparable changes in culture and power, with vernacular replacing cosmopolitan forms of language and literature in many areas of cultural production, and regional forms of polity replacing empire…

  • The Transformation of Culture-Power In Indo-Europe, 1000-1300

    Sheldon PollockARTICLEMedieval Encounters2004Cited by: 2

  • The Meaning of Dharma and the Relationship of the Two M?m?ms?s

    Open AccessSheldon PollockARTICLEJournal of Indian Philosophy2004Cited by: 3

  • Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern South Asia

    Sheldon PollockARTICLEComparative Studies of South Asia…2004Cited by: 6References: 3

    Research Article| August 01 2004 Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern South Asia: Introduction Sheldon Pollock Sheldon Pollock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 19–21. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-24-2-19 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sheldon Pollock; Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern South Asia: Intr…

  • Literary Cultures in History

    Sheldon PollockBOOKLiterary Cultures in History2003

  • Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History

    Open AccessSheldon PollockCHAPTERCosmopolitanism2002

  • Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History

    Open AccessSheldon PollockCHAPTERCosmopolitanism2002

  • Cosmopolitanisms

    Open AccessSheldon Pollock, Homi K Bhabha et al.CHAPTERCosmopolitanism2002