The deconstruction of the West: an unaccomplished task. Towards “the politics of imagining the West”
Despite the ambition of Postcolonial Studies to place deconstruction of “the West” at the heart of contemporary social sciences and humanities, the authority of this notion has never been so strong, and the West appears today to belong to a “natural order” of thinking and speaking about our current...
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Mimesis Edizioni, Milano
2016-03-01
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| description | Despite the ambition of Postcolonial Studies to place deconstruction of “the West” at the heart of contemporary social sciences and humanities, the authority of this notion has never been so strong, and the West appears today to belong to a “natural order” of thinking and speaking about our current reality. Having pointed out the limits of the postcolonial critique of the West, this study then individuates and connects several lines of research to a common epistemological basis in order to map the contours of an emerging field: “the politics of imagining the West”. From this perspective, the West is no longer conceived of as a subject of history but as a historically determined narrative articulated by individuals and social groups with strategic aims in the context of wider discourses. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-98cc0eb3cce74d52bb84c068fd3be92b2022-12-21T23:22:26ZengMimesis Edizioni, MilanoIm@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary2281-81382281-81382016-03-010618520110.7413/22818138053930The deconstruction of the West: an unaccomplished task. Towards “the politics of imagining the West”Lorenzo Casini0<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="section" style="background-color: rgb(100.000000%, 100.000000%, 100.000000%);"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dipartimento di Civiltà Antiche e Moderne (DICAM) - Università di Messina </span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div>Despite the ambition of Postcolonial Studies to place deconstruction of “the West” at the heart of contemporary social sciences and humanities, the authority of this notion has never been so strong, and the West appears today to belong to a “natural order” of thinking and speaking about our current reality. Having pointed out the limits of the postcolonial critique of the West, this study then individuates and connects several lines of research to a common epistemological basis in order to map the contours of an emerging field: “the politics of imagining the West”. From this perspective, the West is no longer conceived of as a subject of history but as a historically determined narrative articulated by individuals and social groups with strategic aims in the context of wider discourses.http://cab.unime.it/journals/index.php/IMAGO/article/view/1204Imaginal politicsOccidentalismArabic noveldeconstructionthe west |
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| title | The deconstruction of the West: an unaccomplished task. Towards “the politics of imagining the West” |
| title_full | The deconstruction of the West: an unaccomplished task. Towards “the politics of imagining the West” |
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| title_short | The deconstruction of the West: an unaccomplished task. Towards “the politics of imagining the West” |
| title_sort | deconstruction of the west an unaccomplished task towards the politics of imagining the west |
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