Challenges to the Social Sciences in the 21st Century: Some Perspectives from the South

Challenges to the Social Sciences in the 21st Century by Aditya Mukherjee by TigersEye99

The fetish of “the West” in postcolonial theory

by Neil Lazarus, 2004

In a commentary entitled “East isn’t East,” which appeared not long

ago in the Times Literary Supplement, Edward Said proposed that one

of the essential gestures of postcolonial criticism, and one of its enduring

achievements, rested in what he called its “consistent critique

of Eurocentrism” (1995: 5). In the pages that follow, I would like to

put some pressure on this assessment. My intention is not, of course,

to suggest that the postcolonialist critique of Eurocentrism has not

been significant in helping to expose the tendentiousness, chauvinism,

and sheer pervasiveness of the ideological formation that Said

himself, in his seminal study of 1978, addressed under the rubric of

Orientalism. I take it for granted that it has, and believe moreover that

to argue otherwise would be simply perverse. Rather, my aim in this

chapter is to suggest that in the field of postcolonial studies at large,

including in the work of some of the field’s most audacious and theoretically

sophisticated practitioners, Eurocentrism has typically been

viewed not as an ideology or mode of representation but as itself the

very basis of domination in the colonial and modern imperial contexts.

Enrique Dussel: The Underside of Modernity

The underside of modernity:

Apel, Ricoeur, Rorty, Taylor and

the philosophy of liberation

Enrique Dussel

(translated and edited by Eduardo Mendieta)

 

1993

 

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Editor’s Introduction [enter]

PART ONE

Five Samir Amin Books Published by Pambazuka

Five Samir Amin books published by Pambazuka, reviewed by Bill Bowring, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books

	Samir Amin The Law of Worldwide Value Translated by Brian Pearce and Shane Mage, Monthly Review Press, New York, 2nd edition 2010. 144pp., $15.95 / £12.95 pb ISBN 9781583672341
	Samir Amin Eurocentrism: Modernity, Religion, and Democracy. A Critique of Eurocentrism and Culturalism Translated by Russell Moore and James Membrez, Pambazuka Press, Oxford, and Monthly Review Press, New York, 2nd edition 2009. 290pp, $17.95 / £12.95 pb ISBN 9781583672075