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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789787003321

Autore

Drabinski John E. <1968->

Titolo

Levinas and the postcolonial : race, nation, other / / John E. Drabinski [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-7486-5261-2

1-283-22182-9

9786613221827

0-7486-4706-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 206 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

001.09

Soggetti

Postcolonialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: decolonizing Levinasian ethic -- Incarnate historiography and the problem of method -- Epistemological fracture -- The ontology of fracture -- Ethics of entanglement -- Decolonizing Levinasian politics.

Sommario/riassunto

This monograph initiates the conversation between Levinas and postcolonial theory through a zig-zag reading  asking both how postcolonial theory challenges so many Levinasian concepts and how a Levinasian ethics is crucial for the normative dimension of postcolonial thinking.