How has postcolonial thought been developed and how does it continue to develop? What sort of criticism has Occidentalism produced? And what type of alternative universalism does it propose? This book takes a particularly original approach to seeking answers to these basic questions in order to understand the modern world and the decentering currently occurring in the West.
This work goes far beyond being a simple cartography of postcolonial thought. It presents a sociology of the big names in postcolonial thought, taking into account the context in which their work was produced and the effect of exile on it.
Thomas Brisson is an associate professor in the political science department of the Université Paris 8, a researcher at Cresppa-LabTop (CNRS Paris) and an associate researcher at the Maison franco-japonaise (CNRS Tokyo). Décentrer l’Occident is his first book.