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1 online resource (301 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Vico, Spinoza, and the imperial past -- Hegel and the critique of colonialism -- Nietzsche and the colonies -- Borrowed light. |
| Summary |
A critical revaluation of the humanist tradition, Borrowed Light makes the case that the 20th century is the ""anticolonial century."" The sparks of concerted resistance to colonial oppression were ignited in the gathering of intellectual malcontents from all over the world in interwar Europe. Many of this era's principal figures were formed by the experience of revolution on Europe's semi-developed Eastern periphery, making their ideas especially pertinent to current ideas about autonomy and sovereignty. Moreover, the debates most prominent then-human vs. inhuman, religions of the. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744 -- Influence.
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Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744. |
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 -- Influence.
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. |
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Colonies -- Philosophy.
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Colonies. |
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Philosophy. |
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Imperialism -- Philosophy.
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Imperialism -- Philosophy. |
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Imperialism. |
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Philosophy, Modern.
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Philosophy, Modern. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brennan, Timothy. Borrowed light. Volume I : Vico, Hegel, and the colonies. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014] 9780804790543 (DLC) 10846126 |
| ISBN |
9780804790581 (e-book) |
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0804790582 (e-book) |
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9780804788328 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804790543 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0804788324 |
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080479054X |
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