Event overview
The second of two talks on Postcolonial Theory and International Relations, sponsored by the Centre for Postcolonial Studies
Recent reincarnations of Kant’s cosmopolitan meditations rest on the expansive promise of transcending thick, meaning-bearing forms of association and belonging in favour of a thin, but universal (and universalizing), commitment to humanity. The new cosmopolitanism would produce a post-Westphalian ethics in a world of strangers. A key plank of this post-secular sensibility is the evacuation of religious attachments in modernity’s global march. Relying on Gandhi’s critique of modern civilization, this paper challenges the lure of cosmopolitan impulse nested in secularism. Rather, the latter may impose the hegemony of imperial reason in occluding alternatives based on recognition of difference and non-hierarchical cultural agency.
www.gold.ac.uk/postcolonial-studies/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Mar 2010 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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