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After Frankfurt

Sedimentations, Colonialism, and Critical Theory

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ID3150486
AuthorsAntonio Y Vázquez-Arroyo (0000-0003-1817-6381, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume52
Issue2
Pages69-97
Publication date2025-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew German Critique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/0094033x-11793062
OpenAlexW4413348512
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited26

Over the last two decades, "decolonization" has emerged as a pervasive trope in the humanities and social sciences. These invocations of "decolonization" raise important questions: What do these attempts at "decolonization" imply about concepts, about ideas and categories, institutions and practices? Does this theoretical framing of questions about colonialism and its impress in theoretical forms truly capture the actual role of historical sedimentation in conceptual construction? This essay addresses these questions and offers an alternative account of concepts shot through with colonial sediments and ruination by retrieving the dialectical legacy of Critical Theory "after Frankfurt

Archaeology · Colonialism · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies · History · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism

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