Re: Anti-Eurocentrism

["Ricardo Duchesne" <RDUCHESN@xxxxxxxx>]

I also liked her intro to Derrida's Grammatology. But some of her
other stuff  is plain juvenile mush,  you can
turn it around any which way you want and like any porridge the
meaning will remain the same. Here's a passage from her recent
A Critique of Post-Colonial Reason - which
commences with an attack against the German 'speculative schemes for
ordering history', to tell us that the goal of Kant's Imperative
is to "make the heathen into a human so that he can be
treated as an end in himself; in the interest of admitting the raw
man into the noumenon, yesterday's imperialism, today's
'Development'".

No one in the third world talks about 'post-colonialism'; this is
the ideology of those who emigrated to the West because they
loved  its culture but once they started living it
up there felt guilty - in addition to the euphoria they felt having
so many whites telling them they wished they could be Indians...So
they longer she stayed in the west the more Indian Spivak felt, and
the more she disliked eurocentrism and all the European books she had
educated herself with.