Levinas And The Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other

Levinas And The Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other
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What can we learn from reading Levinas alongside postcolonial theories of difference? With that question in view, What can we learn from reading Levinas alongside postcolonial theories of difference? With that question in view, Drabinski undertakes readings of Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Édouard Glissant, and Subcommandante Marcos in order to rethink ideas of difference, language, subjectivity, ethics, and politics. Through these philosophical readings, he gives a new perspective on the work of these important postcolonial theorists and helps make Levinas relevant to other disciplines concerned with postcolonialism and ethics.

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