Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:00:24 -0600
Subject: RE: philosophy and postcolonialism


>===== Original Message From postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ====>I wonder though whether we are running "literary/cultural Theory" into
>philosophy as a discipline. I know I open myself up to a good deconstructive
>critique by posing this question. The folks I think of who work "in
>philosophy" and do this work under the problematic rubric postcolonial are
>Lucius outlaw, Robert Bernasconi (to an extent) Tsenay Serequeberhan,
>Emmanuel Eze, Marcien Towa (a central figure who is finally being translated)
>and some of the others that have been named. Indeed the question of
>"philosophy proper's" engagement with race (which in some cases takes a
>"postcolonial" form) is quite vexed. Someone correct me on this.
>
>Peculiarly enuff my "list" is all African. There are two names who are
>sitting on my shelf somewhere who work communitarianism-Kantian
>cosmopolitanism (I believe) from South Asian stiltedness, but there names
>escape me.
>
>
>
>Joseph N Clarke
>Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literatures
>in English
>The University of Pennsylvania
>English Department, Bennett Hall 119
>3340 Walnut Street
>Philadelphia PA 19146-6273  USA
>clarkejnc-AT-aol.com
>
>
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