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Post-Colonial Thinking and Modes of Being-with Others

Woermann, Minka
2021
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1825-5167
DOI
10.13137/1825-5167/31715
http://hdl.handle.net/10077/31715
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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 historically-constituted community; and, the non-essentialised mode, wherein our identities are open to Oters. 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.
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Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics 
Subjects
  • Postcoloniality

  • Ubuntu

  • Being-with

  • the Other

  • African Humanism/Comm...

  • the Po-litical

  • Heidegger

  • Nancy

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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
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Minka Woermann, "Post-Colonial Thinking and Modes of Being-with Others" in: "Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics (2020) XXII/3", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2021, pp. 833-844
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