{"product_id":"humanism-after-colonialism-9783039102549","title":"Humanism After Colonialism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.","brand":"Verlag Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043709419863,"sku":"9783039102549","price":63.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783039102549.jpg?v=1750959195","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/humanism-after-colonialism-9783039102549","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}