John E. Drabinski

Levinas and the Postcolonial (eBook, ePUB)

Race, Nation, Other

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Relates Levinas'' central concept of the Other to postcolonial conceptions of Otherness

The idea of the Other is central to both Levinas'' philosophy and to postcolonialism, but they both apply the concept in different ways. Now, John Drabinski asks what we can learn from reading Levinas alongside postcolonial theories of difference. Drawing on the works of Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Edouard Glissant and Subcommandante Marcos, he rethinks ideas of difference, language, subjectivity, ethics and politics.

Winner of the The Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought 2014

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748677290
• Artikelnr.: 56903473

Autorenporträt

John E. Drabinski is Associate Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Decolonizing Levinasian Ethics
1. Incarnate Historiography and the Problem of Method
2. Epistemological Fracture
3. The Ontology of Fracture
4. Ethics of Entanglement
5. Decolonizing Levinasian Politics
Concluding Remarks
Index.