Rescuing the Enlightenment From the Europeans Critical Theories of Decolonization

Dhawan, Nikita

Rescuing the Enlightenment From the Europeans Critical Theories of Decolonization - North Carolina De Gruyter 2026 - 383 Seiten

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Introduction. Postcolonial Dilemmas: To Renounce or Rescue the Enlightenment 1 Part I. The History of the Present 19 1. Who Financed the Enlightenment? Colonialism and the Age of Reason 21 2. The Self-Barbarization of Europe: Enlightenment and Nazism 65 3. Europe: What Can It Teach Us? 113 Part II. Where Does the Future Come From? 4. The Nonperformativity of Critique: Protest Politics, State Phobia, and the Erotics of Resistance 143 5. Critique of Violence-Violence of Critique 205 6. Aesthetic Enlightenment and the Art of Decolonization 262 Conclusion. Affirmative Sabotage of the Masters Tools 288 Acknowledgment

9781478061663

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