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Stiftung dekolonisiert: Eine Lektüre von Merleau-Pontys Vorlesungen über Institution

  • Lisa Guenther
Published/Copyright: March 14, 2024

Abstract

This paper offers a close reading of Merleau-Ponty’s Institution Course Notes to reflect on the history of colonisation as both an event and a structure. On the one hand, colonial invasion is a singular cataclysmic event; on the other hand, it establishes legal, social, economic and psychic structures that seem increasingly inevitable the more they are repeated. Likewise, decolonisation may require a singular liberatory event, but it also calls for the (re)establishment of alternative traditions that issue a different “call to follow.” A critical interpretation of Merleau-Ponty in conversation with abolitionist and decolonial thinkers helps to clarify the temporal and political relation between event and structure, building bridges between phenomenology and radical politics.

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Published Online: 2024-03-14
Published in Print: 2024-03-25

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