• Subjects in Difference: Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, and Postcolonial Theory

    Author(s):
    Zahid R. Chaudhary (see profile)
    Date:
    2012
    Subject(s):
    Frankfurt school of sociology, Postcolonialism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Frankfurt school
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/nd67-s078
    Abstract:
    This essay aims to rethink historical difference in light of Walter Benjamin’s formulation of mimesis and Frantz Fanon’s phenomenology of difference. Divided into three parts, the essay engages Dipesh Chakrabarty’s account of historical difference, considers how an understanding of mimesis might safeguard against some of the philosophical pitfalls within Chakrabarty’s formulation, and revisits Fanon for an explication of a theory of mimesis and difference that may be the grounds for a renewed understanding of historical difference. The essay makes a case for the relevance of Frankfurt School dialectics for postcolonial problematics.
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    Pub. DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-1533556
    Publisher:
    Duke University Press
    Pub. Date:
    2012-3-6
    Journal:
    differences
    Volume:
    23
    Issue:
    1
    Page Range:
    151 - 183
    ISSN:
    1040-7391,1527-1986
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 years ago
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