Postcolonial thinking and modes of being-with others
| dc.contributor.author | Woermann, Minka | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-18T14:19:20Z | en_ZA |
| dc.date.available | 2023-01-18T14:19:20Z | en_ZA |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | en_ZA |
| dc.description | CITATION: Woermann, M. 2020. Postcolonial thinking and modes of being-with others. Etica & Politica, XXII, 3:833-848. | en_ZA |
| dc.description | The original publication is available at http://www2.units.it/etica | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper seeks to interrogate the mode of relationality – or Being-with Others – that supports a responsible postcolonial thinking. The paper draws from both the Western and African philosophical traditions. Three modes of Being-with Others are identified at the hand of Martin Heidegger’s and Jean-Luc Nancy’s work, namely the exterior mode, in which we simply exist alongside one another; the interior mode, wherein our identities are assimilated by a historicallyconstituted community; and, the non-essentialised mode, wherein our identities are open to Others. The paper critically explores African Humanism and African Communitarian in order to demonstrate how – in practice – these views often lend support to the exterior mode and the interior mode respectively. As an alternative to these views, a reading of African philosophy that foregrounds the Political as first philosophy is given. It is demonstrated how this reading not only demands a non-essentialised mode of Being-with Others (which will be motivated as the preferred relational mode), but also leads to a view of postcoloniality that is premised on the inherent openness of being and community. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.version | Publisher's version | en_ZA |
| dc.format.extent | 16 pages | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Woermann, M. 2020. Postcolonial thinking and modes of being-with others. Etica & Politica, XXII, 3:833-848. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1825-5167 (online) | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7058-0798 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/126243 | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste | en_ZA |
| dc.rights.holder | Author retains copyright | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Postcolonialism | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Ubuntu (Philosophy) | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Communitarianism | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Philosophy, African | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Cosmopolitanism | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Postcolonial thinking and modes of being-with others | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |