{"product_id":"humanism-after-colonialism-9783039102549","title":"Humanism after Colonialism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Claudia Alvares\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Movements - Humanism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47587387670679,"sku":"9783039102549","price":7907.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783039102549.webp?v=1774966700","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/humanism-after-colonialism-9783039102549","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}