This is a sustained piece of theorisation about the postcolonial to rival Peter Hallward’s Absolutely Postcolonial. Postcolonial Agency provides a significantly new understanding of the processes of social transformation faced by many societies as they struggle with the aftermath of empire. It complements and balances the attention given by postcolonial theory to the revitalisation and recognition of the agency of colonised peoples by offering new conceptual scaffolding to those who have inherited the legacy of colonial privilege, and who now seek to transform this historical injustice responsibly. Attending to a minor tradition within Western philosophy, with particular reference to Deleuze and including Spinoza, Nietzsche and Bergson, Simone Bignall argues that a non-imperial concept of ethical and political agency and a postcolonial philosophy of material transformation are embedded within aspects of poststructuralist social philosophy. By engaging readers with respect to their affective communities and their concrete ethics of relationship, Postcolonial Agency argues fora valuable new way of conceptualising practices of postcolonial sociability.
- ISBN: 978-0-7486-3943-4
- Editorial: Edinburgh University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés