Unthinking Mastery

Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy
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Author: Julietta Singh ISBN: 9780822372363
Publisher: Duke University Press Publication: December 7, 2017
Imprint: Duke University Press Books Language: English
Author: Julietta Singh
ISBN: 9780822372363
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication: December 7, 2017
Imprint: Duke University Press Books
Language: English

Julietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-mastery advocated by anticolonial thinkers like Fanon and Gandhi unintentionally reproduced colonial logic, thereby leading her to argue for a more productive human subjectivity that is not centered on concepts of mastery.

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Julietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-mastery advocated by anticolonial thinkers like Fanon and Gandhi unintentionally reproduced colonial logic, thereby leading her to argue for a more productive human subjectivity that is not centered on concepts of mastery.

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