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Humanism After Colonialism

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This study provides a wide-ranging critique of contemporary anti-humanist postcolonial theory. By charting a genealogy of the complicity of humanism and oppression in the New World, this analysis highlights the process of consolidation of a racialised, autonomous and rational modern subject as well as the existence of a fractured modernity. Situating contemporary Derridean critiques of humanism within the Hegelian tradition, this work demonstrates that post-modern anti-essentialism does not succeed in escaping totalisation. Furthermore, it contextualises the fractured modernity of the Western humanist tradition in relation to the works of key twentieth-century thinkers such as Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas, arguing that these authors problematise the common reduction of humanism to a totalising outlook, due to their revelation of the gaps and fissures prevalent in the modern. Combining insights drawn from Fanon¿s emphasis on lived experience, Arendt¿s enlarged mentality and Levinas¿s non-ontological transcendence, this study aims to deconstruct the complicity between humanism and colonialism.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9783039102549
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 318
  • Published:
  • September 5, 2006
  • Edition:
  • Dimensions:
  • 225x152x22 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 458 g.
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Description of Humanism After Colonialism

This study provides a wide-ranging critique of contemporary anti-humanist postcolonial theory. By charting a genealogy of the complicity of humanism and oppression in the New World, this analysis highlights the process of consolidation of a racialised, autonomous and rational modern subject as well as the existence of a fractured modernity. Situating contemporary Derridean critiques of humanism within the Hegelian tradition, this work demonstrates that post-modern anti-essentialism does not succeed in escaping totalisation. Furthermore, it contextualises the fractured modernity of the Western humanist tradition in relation to the works of key twentieth-century thinkers such as Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas, arguing that these authors problematise the common reduction of humanism to a totalising outlook, due to their revelation of the gaps and fissures prevalent in the modern. Combining insights drawn from Fanon¿s emphasis on lived experience, Arendt¿s enlarged mentality and Levinas¿s non-ontological transcendence, this study aims to deconstruct the complicity between humanism and colonialism.

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