This title relates Levinas' central concept of the Other to distinctly postcolonial conceptions of Otherness. The idea of the Other is central to both Levinas' philosophy and to postcolonialism, but they both apply the concept in different ways. Now, John E. Drabinski asks what we can learn from reading Levinas alongside postcolonial theories of difference. With that question in view, Drabinski undertakes readings of Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Edouard Glissant and Subcommandante Marcos in order to rethink ideas of difference, language, subjectivity, ethics and politics.
This title relates Levinas' central concept of the Other to distinctly postcolonial conceptions of Otherness. The idea of the Other is central to both Levinas' philosophy and to postcolonialism, but they both apply the concept in different ways. Now, John E. Drabinski asks what we can learn from reading Levinas alongside postcolonial theories of difference. With that question in view, Drabinski undertakes readings of Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Edouard Glissant and Subcommandante Marcos in order to rethink ideas of difference, language, subjectivity, ethics and politics.
Introduction: Decolonizing Levinasian Ethics; 1. Incarnate Historiography and the Problem of Method; 2. Epistemological Fracture; 3. The Ontology of Fracture; 4. Ethics of Entanglement; 5. Decolonizing Levinasian Politics; Concluding Remarks.
John E. Drabinski is Visiting Associate Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College.
Drabinski resolutely places himself in the unacknowledged double
bind between the ethical and the political in Levinas's work and,
with an impressive and erudite humility, attempts to rethink
Levinas for "those of us with a materialist sensibility."--Gayatri
Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities Columbia
University
To think postcolonial critique as a philosophy of difference and an
ethical relation to the Other is inconceivable without taking into
account the work of Emmanuel Levinas. Levinas and the Postcolonial
refuses all theoretical ghettos to bring welcome intellectual
rigor, depth, and insight to the critique of global
colonialism.--Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University
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