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The politics of hope and the other-in-the-world : thinking exteriority
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Nayar, Jayan (2013) The politics of hope and the other-in-the-world : thinking exteriority. Law and Critique, Vol.24 (No.1). pp. 63-85. doi:10.1007/s10978-012-9115-8 ISSN 0957-8536.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10978-012-9115-8
Abstract
The paper offers a critical interrogation of the politics of hope in relation to suffering in the world. It begins with a critique of the assumptions and aspirations of ‘philosophies of hope’ that assume a Levinasian responsibility for the suffering-Other. Such approaches to thinking hope reveal an underlying coloniality of ontology, of totality/exteriority, which defines Being and Non-Being, presence and absence, in totality. Consistent with past colonial rationalities, the logics of salvation and rescue define, still, these contemporary envisionings of the ‘white man’s burden’ in relation to the suffering Other. A decolonial ontology of Exteriority, of an incommensurable radical Other-Being against Totality, is instead presented. The focus here shifts from the passive suffering-Other that is the object of rescue, to the Radical Other that is the author of encounter. By returning Exteriority (the Radical Other-in-the-World) to theory and by opening up theory’s locations of enunciation, the implications of responsibility, in thinking hope, become open also to interrogation and vulnerable to unsatisfactory conclusions.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Law and Critique | ||||
Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | ||||
ISSN: | 0957-8536 | ||||
Official Date: | 2013 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.24 | ||||
Number: | No.1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 63-85 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s10978-012-9115-8 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
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