TY - BOOK AU - Dhawan, Nikita TI - Rescuing the Enlightenment From the Europeans: Critical Theories of Decolonization SN - 9781478061663 PY - 2026/// CY - North Carolina PB - De Gruyter N1 - E-Book / Zugriff nur im Lesesaal N2 - 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 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=4372498 ER -