Borrowed Light, Volume 1 - by Timothy Brennan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A critical revaluation of humanism, this book makes a case for the 20th-century as the anticolonial century by returning to the scientific Enlightenment and following a neglected intellectual tradition that led to what we today call Marxism.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>A critical revaluation of humanism, this book makes a case for the 20th-century as the "anticolonial century" by returning to the scientific Enlightenment and following a neglected intellectual tradition that led to what we today call Marxism.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Borrowed Light</i> is a significant contribution to postcolonial studies by a scholar widely acknowledged as a leading figure in the field. Written in the polemical spirit of the author's teacher, Edward Said, and drawing on a genuinely impressive command of the field, it outlines how an important strand in the history of European philosophy was connected to imperialism, whether affirmatively or critically.--Simon During<br><br>This is a work of vast ambition, dazzling erudition and lapidary brilliance. Centering on Vico, the 'Vichian tradition', and philology-as-method, the book's agenda is to give us a different version of the past of anti-colonial thought.--Neil Lazarus<br><br>This surprising, provoking book re-charts the intellectual map by reassembling lineages of anticolonial thought, and rescuing with new readings old texts that were supposedly behind us. Vigorously engaged on the battlefield of contemporary theoretical debates, the book's argument and its execution are classic Brennan.--Susan Buck-Morss, Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center and Professor Emeritus "Cornell University"<br><br>Timothy Brennan's <i>Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel and the Colonies, Volume I</i> is a powerful and provocative work of intellectual history and critical theory. Brennan challenges us to rethink many of our contemporary theories in light of the historical relationship between philosophy and colonialism. He is particularly invested in a tradition of philological thought that begins with Vico and passes through Hegel and Marx on its way to the anticolonial movements of the twentieth century. And he is especially concerned to combat an anti-humanist and 'counterphilological' trend that he traces from Spinoza and Nietzsche into Bataille and a variety of contemporary theorists.--Avram Alpert "<i>Journal of Modern Literature</i>"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Timothy Brennan is Professor of comparative literature, cultural studies, and English at the University of Minnesota. He is the author most recently of <i>Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz</i> (Verso, 2008) and <i>Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right</i> (Columbia, 2006).
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