Decolonizing enlightenment : transnational justice, human rights and democracy in a postcolonial world / Nikita Dhawan, editor.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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Cover; Decolonizing Enlightenment; Contents; Introduction; I. Entangled Legacies; Affirmative Sabotage of the Master's Tools: The Paradox of Postcolonial Enlightenment; The Disenchantment of Enlightenment; Re-enchantment of Enlightenment; Imperialist Enlightenment or Enlightenment Against Imperialism?; Enlightenment Is Critique; Do not Accuse, Do not Excuse; Bibliography; Under (Post)colonial Eyes: Kant, Foucault, and Critique; Critique, Enlightenment, and (Post)Colonial Interventions; Foucault's Introduction to Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View; Kant's Concept of Race.

Perpetual CritiqueBibliography; Hegel and the Black Atlantic: Universalism, Humanism and Relation; Hegel in Paris; Aimé Césaire: Négritude and Aufhebung; Franz Fanon: Recognition and Revolution; Edouard Glissant: Relation and Totality; Postcolonial Cannibalism; Bibliography; Uncanny Entanglements: Holocaust, Colonialism, and Enlightenment; Uncanny Questions; The Shoah: Rupture in Civilization or Civilized Evil?; The Banality of Evil; Enlarged Thinking; (Re- )Education or What to Do After Evil?; Bibliography; II. Transnational Justice.

A Historical Claim for Justice: Re-configuring the Enlightenment for and from the MarginsContesting Racism in Imperial Germany; Discourse of Difference; The Anthropological Gaze of the Spectacle: Social Practices of Difference; A Feminist History of Racism; Taking the Stage Again; Renewing Enlightenment; Bibliography; Feminist Justice Beyond Law: Spivakian "Ab-Use" of Enlightenment Textuality in Imagining the Other; Introduction; Textually Placing the Native Informant: Spivak Reading Kant; Is Postcolonialism a Feminism? Native Informant as Woman.

Through and Beyond "Law": Toward a Feminist JusticeA Situated Problem: Staging the Ethical; Conclusion: Feminism of the Singular?; Bibliography; A Modest Proposal for Transnational Justice and Political Responsibility; Post_colonial Feminist Contestations of Transnational Justice; Responsibility to Transnational Justice; Making Privileged Irresponsibility and Epistemic Ignorance Matter in Conceptualizing Responsibility; Identifying the Agents of Transnational Justice; Conclusion; Bibliography; Decolonizing Theories of Global Justice.

Liberal Theories of Justice and their Exclusionary Mechanisms: John Rawls's "Decent Peoples"Beyond the Parish Walls? Martha Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach; Justice as an Experience of the Impossible: Postcolonial Feminist Interventions to Liberal Theories of Justice; Bibliography; III. Human Rights; The Other Side of the Story: Human Rights, Race, and Gender from a Transatlantic Perspective; Introduction; Subjectivity and Sovereignty: "I Conquer" and the Imperial Attitude; The Imperial Attitude and Human Rights; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Do norms of justice, human rights and democracy enable disenfranchised communities? Or do they simply reinforce relations of domination between those who are constituted as dispensers of justice, rights and aid, and those who are coded as receivers? Critical race theorists, feminists and queer and postcolonial theorists confront these questions and offer critical perspectives.

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