Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0065137

Zusammenfassung

Given that postcolonial studies is considered anti-Enlightenment, it may seem paradoxical to propose a critical theory of postcolonialism. Postcolonial scholars have previously argued that lofty Enlightenment ideals are inflected by colonial violence and fascist terror, even as the Enlightenment served the interests of a certain privileged class, which enshrined norms with an implicit gender, racial and sexual bias. Despite these objections, Gayatri Spivak argues that given the imperial and counter-imperial nature of Enlightenment "one cannot not want it." Using the metaphor of "child ...