Postcolonial movement and philosophies of diference
a minimal map
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https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-3173.2022.v45n1.p223Keywords:
Archeo-genealogy, Colonization, Inbetween, PostmodernityAbstract
This paper discusses the relation between the philosophies of difference and the so-called postcolonial movement of thought. Our main sources are, on the side of the postcolonial studies, Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, and Homi Bhabha and, on the side of the philosophies of difference, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari. We show that the authors belonging to the postcolonial movement are, to large extent, heirs of a way of thought already practiced by the philosophers of difference. However, the postcolonial authors also reinforce the conceptual apparatus of the philosophies of difference with original contributions and, above all, an attentive consideration of the problem of colonial difference, which remains a big gap for critical thought. Regarding that, we draw a minimal map of the points where the philosophies of difference and the postcolonial thought intercept each other. This map also shows points where the postcolonial movement overcomes the perspective of the philosophies of difference, precisely addressing one of its blind spots: the colonial question.
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Received: 21/11/2020 - Approved: 12/4/2021
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