| Humanism after Colonialism Contributor(s): Alvares, Claudia (Author) |
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ISBN: 3039102540 ISBN-13: 9783039102549 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $102.42 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Humanism - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| LCCN: 2007270356 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6" W x 9" (0.95 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
