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Humanism After Colonialism (Paperback)
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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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