The world, the global and the planetary. Edward W. Said & humanism in the Anthropocene era
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Edward W. Said, acclaimed or vilified as one of the ‘founding fathers’ of post-colonial studies, always refused labels, faithful to the critical element that he always considered should assist all intellectual practice, which according to him was always to be seen as enmeshed in the world. His (un)timeliness, patent in the way his being-in-the-world did not amount to a catching up of the most recent intellectual trends, his insistence on the reading of heterodox authors excluded from decolonizing canons echoes in an emphatic way in his late writings, while also holding onto a critical humanism. How is to think about the relations, and the disjunctions, between the world, the global and the planetary (Chakrabarty) considering the (un)timeliness of Said’s critical humanism in the age of the Anthropocene?
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