Involving Anthroponomy in the Anthropocene
On Decoloniality
Samenvatting
i) It makes big concepts life sized through its first person style.
ii) It charts a course between despair and action.
iii) It shows how going backward to deal with colonialism is important for going forward to deal with our unsustainable civilization.
iv) Its footnotes are filled with wide-reaching scholarship, involved with many current debates – whereas its main text is written in a reflective style, free of overly detailed scholarship.
v) It defies genres with a philosophical justification for doing so. These genres include: the essay, the novel, the spiritual exercise, and the philosophical treatise.
vi) It ends with a critical essay on the work, making the work’s core of idea of disagreement-in-relationship actual.