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This important book critically addresses the b̀ecoming West' of Europe and investigates the b̀ecoming Modern' of the world. Drawing on the work of Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, Lyotard, Merleau-Ponty and Ricoeur, the book proposes that the question of postmodernity is inseparable from that o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Venn, Couze
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; AThousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2000.
Series:Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Postmodernism.
Postcolonialism.
Civilization, Western.
Postmodernisme.
Postcolonialisme.
Civilisation occidentale.
postcolonialism.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Post-Structuralism.
Civilization, Western
Postcolonialism
Postmodernism
Moderne
Philosophie
Postkolonialismus
Subjektivität
Verwestlichung
Postkolonialisme.
Moderniteit.
Cultuurfilosofie.
Westerse wereld.
Westliche Welt
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introducction; 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.

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