TY  - BOOK
AU  - Claudia Alvares
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Humanism after Colonialism
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1100506
N2  - This 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.
KW  - Humanismus, Moderne, Postkolonialismus, Humanism, Post-Colonialism, Discrimination, Political Equality, Slavery
LA  - English
ER  -