Borrowed Light, Volume 1: Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies

by Timothy Brennan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080479054X
• ISBN13: 9780804790543
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"