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This important book critically addresses the `becoming West' of Europe and investigates the `becoming Modern' of the world. Drawing on the work of Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, Lyotard, Merleau-Ponty and Ricoeur, the book proposes that the question of postmodernity is inseparable from that of postcoloniality. The argument fully conveys the sense that modernity is in crisis. It maps out a new genealogy of the birth of the modern and suggests a new way of grounding the idea of an emancipation of being. Postcolonialism has emerged as a central topic in contemporary social science and cultural studies. This book informs readers as to the central strands of the debate and introduces a host of new ideas which will be a rich fund f
Heteronomy, Alterity, Embodiment: On Becoming Otherwise
Heteronomy, Alterity, Embodiment: On Becoming Otherwise
Relocating the Problem of the ‘Post’
The exploration of the question of modernity that I have pursued has constantly stumbled upon another question: that of what being is. The way that I have examined the latter has moved away from the terrain of a ...
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