Mehr lesen
Informationen zum Autor Couze Venn is Reader in Cultural Studies at the `Theory, Culture and Society Centre', Nottingham Trent University Klappentext Drawing on the work of Derrida, Foucault, Levinas and Ricouer, this book proposes that the question of postmodernity is inseparable from that of postcolonialism. It maps out a new geneaology of the birth of the modern and suggests a new way of grounding the idea of an emancipation of being. Zusammenfassung Drawing on the work of Derrida! Foucault! Levinas and Ricouer! this book proposes that the question of postmodernity is inseparable from that of postcolonialism. It maps out a new geneaology of the birth of the modern and suggests a new way of grounding the idea of an emancipation of being. Inhaltsverzeichnis Remembering Modernity Historicity, Responsibility, Subjectivity On the Emergence of Modernity and the Birth of the Subject Enlightenment and After Heteronomy, Alterity, Embodiment On Becoming Otherwise
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Remembering Modernity
Historicity, Responsibility, Subjectivity
On the Emergence of Modernity and the Birth of the Subject
Enlightenment and After
Heteronomy, Alterity, Embodiment
On Becoming Otherwise
Bericht
`Couze Venn has written an outstanding and very important book. The issues that he raises about the subject, modernity and European colonisation are vital to our understanding of the politics and ethics of subjectivity in postmodernity. The book is extremely erudite. Its different account of the emergence of the subject of modernity complements the work of postcolonial theorists by demonstrating the central significance of European colonization of the Other in the production of modernity's central concepts. It is a work of great significance for social and cultural studies' -
Valerie Walkerdine, University of Western Sydney
`This is cultural theory at its best in a postcolonial setting, supported by a unique philosophical range. Venn underscores that at issue is not just `orientalism', but also discourses of the `other' about the `same'. 20 years ago Couze Venn was an author of the benchmark Changing the Subject. Now he is back with an original treatise on ethical life' - Scott Lash, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmith College
