Offers an immanent critique of Levinas's core philosophical proposals by reference to his allegedly eurocentric statements.
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"Levinas's big idea is that our lived sense of moral obligation occurs in an immediate experience of the otherness of the Other, and that moral meaning is grounded in alterity rather than identity. Yet he also held what seemed an inconsiderate, or 'eurocentric,' view of other cu…
<Span><span>A postcolonialist reading of the deployment of the concept of culture in literature, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies. It argues that modernity as understood in the Anglo-US episteme is structured around eurocentrism. </span></span>
Introduction: culture as problem -- Culture/race/nature: Arnold, Tylor -- (Civil) society/nature: Hobbes, Locke, Macaulay -- Imagination/imitation: Shelley, Hobbes, Macaulay, Kipling, Malinowski -- Culture/s: Williams, Leavis, Spencer -- "Race"/cultures: Du Bois, Fletcher, Boas,…
Using examples of indigenous models from Indonesia, the Pacific, Africa and native North America, Christina Kreps illustrates how the growing recognition of indigenous curation and concepts of cultural heritage preservation is transforming conventional museum practice. Liberatin…
