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Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies

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By (author): Timothy Brennan

A critical revaluation of the humanist tradition, Borrowed Light makes the case that the 20th century is the anticolonial century. The sparks of concerted resistance to colonial oppression were ignited in the gathering of intellectual malcontents from all over the world in interwar Europe. Many of this era's principal figures were formed by the experience of revolution on Europe's semi-developed Eastern periphery, making their ideas especially pertinent to current ideas about autonomy and sovereignty. Moreover, the debates most prominent thenhuman vs. inhuman, religions of the book vs. oral cultures, the authoritarian state vs. the representative state and, above all, scientific rationality vs. humanist reasonremain central today.
Timothy Brennan returns to the scientific Enlightenment of the 17th century and its legacies. In readings of the showdown between Spinoza and Vico, Hegel's critique of liberalism, and Nietzsche's antipathy towards the colonies and social democracy, Brennan identifies the divergent lines of the first anticolonial theorya literary and philosophical project with strong ties to what we now call Marxism. Along the way, he assesses prospects for a renewal of the study of imperial culture. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 522g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Apr 2014
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780804788328

About Timothy Brennan

Timothy Brennan is Professor of comparative literature cultural studies and English at the University of Minnesota. He is the author most recently of Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz (Verso 2008) and Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right (Columbia 2006).

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