Occidentalism : modernity and subjectivity / / Couze Venn
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| Autore: |
Venn Couze
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| Titolo: |
Occidentalism : modernity and subjectivity / / Couze Venn
|
| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., : SAGE Publications, 2000 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource ([vii], 256 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 149/.97 |
| Soggetto topico: | Postmodernism |
| Postcolonialism | |
| Civilization, Western | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Occidentalism |
| ISBN: | 0-7619-5412-0 |
| 1-280-36941-8 | |
| 9786610369416 | |
| 1-4129-3372-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826338803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)