Levinas and the Postcolonial

Relates Levinas' central concept of the Other to postcolonial conceptions of OthernessThe idea of the Other is central to both Levinas' philosophy and to postcolonialism, but they both apply the concept in different ways. Now, John Drabinski asks what we can learn from reading Levinas alongside postcolonial theories of difference. Drawing on the works of Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Edouard Glissant and Subcommandante Marcos, he rethinks ideas of difference, language, subjectivity, ethics and politics.Winner of the The Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought 2014