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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449974303321

Autore

Venn Couze

Titolo

Occidentalism [[electronic resource] ] : modernity and subjectivity / / Couze Venn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 2000

ISBN

0-7619-5412-0

1-280-36941-8

9786610369416

1-4129-3372-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Theory, culture & society

Disciplina

149/.97

Soggetti

Postmodernism

Postcolonialism

Civilization, Western

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-248) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 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

Sommario/riassunto

This is an account of occidentalism and how it relates to post-colonial critiques of 'the West'. It investigates the 'becoming modern' of the world and proposes the question that postmodernity is inseparable from that of postcolonialism.