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Post-deconstructive Subjectivity and History
Phenomenology, Critical Theory, and Postcolonial Thought
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In Post-Deconstructive Subjectivity and History, Aniruddha Chowdhury argues that deconstruction is not only not a dissolution of subject, as it is often opined, but an affirmation of the singular (ethical) subject and singular history, singularity conceived as alterity, difference and non-identity. Part of the emphasis of the singular history is to conceive the historical relation as figural and as one of repletion with difference.
One of the distinctive aspects of the book is that it not only focuses on the tradition of phenomenology, but also extends deconstruction to critical theory, and postcolonial theory.
Through his intimate reading of the canonical texts of the Continental philosophical tradition (phenomenology and critical theory), and postcolonial thought Chowdhury illuminates pertinent issues in Continental thought, and postcolonial theory.
One of the distinctive aspects of the book is that it not only focuses on the tradition of phenomenology, but also extends deconstruction to critical theory, and postcolonial theory.
Through his intimate reading of the canonical texts of the Continental philosophical tradition (phenomenology and critical theory), and postcolonial thought Chowdhury illuminates pertinent issues in Continental thought, and postcolonial theory.
Aniruddha Chowdhury received his PhD through the Graduate program of Social and Political Thought at York University (2012). He has published essays in journals, such as TELOS
Contents
Acknowledgments 4
Introduction 5
Part One
Phenomenology/Post-Phenomenology, Time and Subject 25
Chapter I. Of the Line: Temporality, Ethical Repetition, and Subject 26
in Being and Time
Chapter II. Beyond Being: Event, Time and Subject in Levinas 74
Part Two
Critical Theory of History 126
Chapter III. Memory, Modernity, Repetition: Walter Benjaminâs 127
Ethico-Political History
Part Three
Postcolonial Singular-Universal: Ethical Subject and History 176
Chapter IV. Postcolonial Irony: Time, Subject and History in the Critical 177
Writings of Wilson Harris
Chapter V. Fecundity of the Ethical: Deconstruction, History and the Subaltern
in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 210
Conclusion 248
Bibliography 256
Acknowledgments 4
Introduction 5
Part One
Phenomenology/Post-Phenomenology, Time and Subject 25
Chapter I. Of the Line: Temporality, Ethical Repetition, and Subject 26
in Being and Time
Chapter II. Beyond Being: Event, Time and Subject in Levinas 74
Part Two
Critical Theory of History 126
Chapter III. Memory, Modernity, Repetition: Walter Benjaminâs 127
Ethico-Political History
Part Three
Postcolonial Singular-Universal: Ethical Subject and History 176
Chapter IV. Postcolonial Irony: Time, Subject and History in the Critical 177
Writings of Wilson Harris
Chapter V. Fecundity of the Ethical: Deconstruction, History and the Subaltern
in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 210
Conclusion 248
Bibliography 256
This book will be of interest to teachers, Graduate students and upper year Undergraduate students in Continental thought and postcolonial theory.