Occidentalism : Modernity and Subjectivity.

By: Venn, CouzeMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Published in association with Theory, Culture & SocietyPublisher: London : SAGE Publications, 2000Copyright date: ©2001Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781412933728Subject(s): PostmodernismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Occidentalism : Modernity and SubjectivityDDC classification: 149.97 LOC classification: B831.2.V46Online resources: Click to View
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introducction -- Chapter 1 - Remembering Modernity -- Chapter 2 - Historicity, Responsibility, Subjectivity -- Chapter 3 - On the Emergence of Modernity and the Birth of the Subject -- Chapter 4 - Enlightenment and After -- Chapter 5 - Heteronomy, Alterity, Embodiment: On Becoming Otherwise -- References -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introducction -- Chapter 1 - Remembering Modernity -- Chapter 2 - Historicity, Responsibility, Subjectivity -- Chapter 3 - On the Emergence of Modernity and the Birth of the Subject -- Chapter 4 - Enlightenment and After -- Chapter 5 - Heteronomy, Alterity, Embodiment: On Becoming Otherwise -- References -- Index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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