Format:
Online-Ressource (vii, 260 p)
ISBN:
1282749862
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9781282749863
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9780748642441
Series Statement:
Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies
Content:
This book complements and balances the attention given by postcolonial theory to the revitalisation and recognition of the agency of colonised peoples. It offers new conceptual scaffolding to those who have inherited the legacy of colonial privilege, and who now seek to responsibly transform this historical injustice. Simone Bignall attends to a minor tradition within Western philosophy including Spinoza, Nietzsche, Bergson and Deleuze, to argue that a non-imperial concept of social and political agency and a postcolonial philosophy of material transformation are embedded within aspects of pos
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Cover; Series Information; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Critique; 1 The Problem of the Negative; 2 Postcolonial Appropriations; 3 The Problem of the Actual; Part II Constructivism; 4 Power/Desire; 5 Subjectivity; 6 What is 'Postcolonial'?; Conclusion: Postcolonial Agency; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1282747894
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780748639434
Additional Edition:
Print version Postcolonial Agency : Critique and Constructivism
Language:
English
URL:
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