Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-248) and index.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introducction; Chapter 1 -- Remembering Modernity; Chapter 2 -- Historicity, Responsibility, Subjectivity; Chapter 3 -- On the Emergence of Modernity and the Birth of the Subject; Chapter 4 -- Enlightenment and After; Chapter 5 -- Heteronomy, Alterity, Embodiment: On Becoming Otherwise; References; Index.
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This important book critically addresses the b̀ecoming West' of Europe and investigates the b̀ecoming Modern' of the world. Drawing on the work of Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, Lyotard, Merleau-Ponty and Ricoeur, the book proposes that the question of postmodernity is inseparable from that of post-coloniality.
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