Levinas and the Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other

The idea of the Other is central to both Levinas' philosophy and to postcolonialism, but they both apply the concept in different ways. Now, John Drabinski asks what we can learn from reading Levinas alongside postcolonial theories of difference. Drawing on the works of Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Edouard Glissant and Subcommandante Marcos, he rethinks ideas of difference, language, subjectivity, ethics and politics.

Author: John E. Drabinski
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 03/10/2013
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780748677283

About the Author

John E. Drabinski is Associate Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College.