Journal Title

Kritika Kultura

Title of the Article

Global Perspective on Modernity and Modernism: Some Notes on Twentieth-Century Transnational Anticolonial Metaphysics

Subject

Heidegger

modern nonviolence

postmetaphysics

list of authors

Leela Gandhi

Abstract

These notes structured around the contention that the early years of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a transnational heterodox metaphysics, or properly, postmetaphysis, whose bearer would be the subject of a distinctly modern form of nonviolence. Dis these discourses designate a coherent global ethics that we might draw upon to counter the pernicious epidemic of harmfulness of the present world? Can we identify the historical and philosophical catalyst for early twentieth century postmetaphysics? What bearing does this "movement" if we may call it that, have upon the question of colonalism? These are some of the questions canvassed in the discussion.

Date Issued

2009