Decolonizing Enlightenment

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Transnational Justice, Human Rights and Democracy in a Postcolonial World

Nikita Dhawan(Herausgeber*in)

Verlag Barbara Budrich

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Erschienen am 24. April 2014

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Decolonizing Enlightenment
Contents
Introduction
I. Entangled Legacies
Affirmative Sabotage of the Master's Tools: The Paradox of Postcolonial Enlightenment
The Disenchantment of Enlightenment
Re-enchantment of Enlightenment
Imperialist Enlightenment or Enlightenment Against Imperialism?
Enlightenment Is Critique
Do not Accuse, Do not Excuse
Bibliography
Under (Post)colonial Eyes: Kant, Foucault, and Critique
Critique, Enlightenment, and (Post)Colonial Interventions
Foucault's Introduction to Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
Kant's Concept of Race
Perpetual Critique
Bibliography
Hegel and the Black Atlantic: Universalism, Humanism and Relation
Hegel in Paris
Aimé Césaire: Négritude and Aufhebung
Franz Fanon: Recognition and Revolution
Edouard Glissant: Relation and Totality
Postcolonial Cannibalism
Bibliography
Uncanny Entanglements: Holocaust, Colonialism, and Enlightenment
Uncanny Questions
The Shoah: Rupture in Civilization or Civilized Evil?
The Banality of Evil
Enlarged Thinking
(Re-)Education or What to Do After Evil?
Bibliography
II. Transnational Justice
A Historical Claim for Justice: Re-configuring the Enlightenment for and from the Margins
Contesting Racism in Imperial Germany
Discourse of Difference
The Anthropological Gaze of the Spectacle: Social Practices of Difference
A Feminist History of Racism
Taking the Stage Again
Renewing Enlightenment
Bibliography
Feminist Justice Beyond Law: Spivakian "Ab-Use" of Enlightenment Textuality in Imagining the Other
Introduction
Textually Placing the Native Informant: Spivak Reading Kant
Is Postcolonialism a Feminism? Native Informant as Woman
Through and Beyond "Law": Toward a Feminist Justice
A Situated Problem: Staging the Ethical
Conclusion: Feminism of the Singular?
Bibliography
A Modest Proposal for Transnational Justice and Political Responsibility
Post_colonial Feminist Contestations of Transnational Justice
Responsibility to Transnational Justice
Making Privileged Irresponsibility and Epistemic Ignorance Matter in Conceptualizing Responsibility
Identifying the Agents of Transnational Justice
Conclusion
Bibliography
Decolonizing Theories of Global Justice
Liberal Theories of Justice and their Exclusionary Mechanisms: John Rawls's "Decent Peoples"
Beyond the Parish Walls? Martha Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach
Justice as an Experience of the Impossible: Postcolonial Feminist Interventions to Liberal Theories of Justice
Bibliography
III. Human Rights
The Other Side of the Story: Human Rights, Race,and Gender from a Transatlantic Perspective
Introduction
Subjectivity and Sovereignty: "I Conquer" and the Imperial Attitude
The Imperial Attitude and Human Rights
Conclusion
Bibliography
Propertization as a Civilizing and Modernizing Mission: Land and Human Rights in the Colonial and Postcolonial World
Introduction
Propertization in Europe
Propertization in Mexico
Conclusion
Bibliography
Between Postnationality and Postcoloniality: Human Rights and the Rights of Non-citizensin a "Cosmopolitan Europe"
The Rights of Man and the Rights of Citizen
Citizens, Non-citizens and the Postcolonial
Human Rights, Migrant Rights, and the Postnational
Reconfiguring the Rights in Human Rights
Conclusion
Bibliography
Defensive Relativism: Universalism, Sovereignty, and the Postcolonial Predicament
Introduction
Decolonizing Relativism
Sovereignty and the Postmodern State
Democratic Sovereignty and Exclusion
The Groundings of Human Rights: Transcendental Versus National
The Culture of Rights and Wants
Conclusion
Bibliography
IV. Democracy
Democracy's Subjections: Human Rights in Contexts of Scarcity
Introduction
Human Rights, Scarcity, and State Repression in Uganda
Liberal Constitutionalism, Poverty, and Resistance in South Africa
Conclusion
Bibliography
Statelessness and the Power of Performance: A Reading of Resistance in the Face of Agamben's Sovereign Power
Schmitt and Agamben
Postcolonialism and Legacies of European Enlightenment
Bibliography
Provincializing Cosmopolitanism: Democratic Iterations and Desubalternization
Seyla Benhabib's Cosmopolitanism: Democratic Iteration and Jurisgenesis
Spivak's "Learning to Learn from Below"
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

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