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| − | + | In Marisol de la Cadena's book, The Earth Beings, one can sense how the Western concept of "History" has been a weapon of destruction by excluding and/or exterminating everything that cannot enter it. The story of a mountain helping an indigenous community in Cuzco defeat a white landowner is not an objective fact that history can count as a "historical moment." It is only a story, not history. This simple judgment roots exclusion and disqualification in a logic that removes all power to alter the other: "Let the other be transformed, converted to logocentrism and white human exceptionalism, or let their existence be diminished, even denied!" » In this sense, the Western-centric historical discipline is an armed narrative (colonizing and conquering) against which, in particular, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Studies are constantly fighting. | |
| − | + | But if we inherit the murderous side of these Western rationalizations, we also inherit alternative narratives lodged within what we call our White History. This is what Deborah Bird Rose teaches us, notably in her book The Dream of the Wild Dog: Love and Extinction. While highlighting the ecocides and genocides that have resulted from the Platonic hyper-separatism between nature and culture at the basis of Western-centric logic, Rose also returns to what tells, or could tell, fruitful interconnections, where the rupture already seems irremediable. The imperialist whiteness that innervates Western culture must not make us forget the colorful specter that also inhabits it. | |
| − | + | It is from these lessons in our heavy legacies that this course proposes to wander through a series of small alternative narratives that cover the heritage of Western philosophy. To do this, it will be a question of interweaving stories that go beyond the usual historical and philosophical framework. How can we situate ourselves in this perpetual philosophical mix and coexist with both our voracious demons and our angels who are beating their wings? | |
Version actuelle datée du 29 septembre 2025 à 13:08
Teacher : Fleur Courtois
Alternative Philosophical Narratives
In Marisol de la Cadena's book, The Earth Beings, one can sense how the Western concept of "History" has been a weapon of destruction by excluding and/or exterminating everything that cannot enter it. The story of a mountain helping an indigenous community in Cuzco defeat a white landowner is not an objective fact that history can count as a "historical moment." It is only a story, not history. This simple judgment roots exclusion and disqualification in a logic that removes all power to alter the other: "Let the other be transformed, converted to logocentrism and white human exceptionalism, or let their existence be diminished, even denied!" » In this sense, the Western-centric historical discipline is an armed narrative (colonizing and conquering) against which, in particular, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Studies are constantly fighting.
But if we inherit the murderous side of these Western rationalizations, we also inherit alternative narratives lodged within what we call our White History. This is what Deborah Bird Rose teaches us, notably in her book The Dream of the Wild Dog: Love and Extinction. While highlighting the ecocides and genocides that have resulted from the Platonic hyper-separatism between nature and culture at the basis of Western-centric logic, Rose also returns to what tells, or could tell, fruitful interconnections, where the rupture already seems irremediable. The imperialist whiteness that innervates Western culture must not make us forget the colorful specter that also inhabits it.
It is from these lessons in our heavy legacies that this course proposes to wander through a series of small alternative narratives that cover the heritage of Western philosophy. To do this, it will be a question of interweaving stories that go beyond the usual historical and philosophical framework. How can we situate ourselves in this perpetual philosophical mix and coexist with both our voracious demons and our angels who are beating their wings?