The Postcolonial Challenge Towards Alternative Worlds (Electronic book text)


This timely book critically addresses the becoming West' of Europe and critically investigates the becoming Modern' of the world. Drawing on the work of Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, Lyotard and Ricoeur, the book proposes that the question of postmodernity is inseparable from that of post-colonialism. It maps out a new geneaology of the birth of the modern and suggests a new way of grounding the idea of an emancipation of being.

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This timely book critically addresses the becoming West' of Europe and critically investigates the becoming Modern' of the world. Drawing on the work of Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, Lyotard and Ricoeur, the book proposes that the question of postmodernity is inseparable from that of post-colonialism. It maps out a new geneaology of the birth of the modern and suggests a new way of grounding the idea of an emancipation of being.

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Sage Publications (CA)

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United States

Release date

2006

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Electronic book text

Pages

228

ISBN-13

978-6611798246

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9786611798246

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6611798242



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