| FT-54306-06 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Timothy Andres Brennan | The Colonial Imagination in Modern European Thought (1900-1968) | 6/1/2006 - 8/31/2006 | $5,000.00 | Timothy | Andres | Brennan | | | | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis | MN | 55455-2009 | USA | 2006 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
In “Borrowed Light,” I argue that the colonial sensitivities that so heavily mark contemporary social and cultural theory are a hallmark of the early twentieth century -- especially the European interwar period -- not, as is often maintained, the “postcolonial turn” of the 1980s and 1990s. Between 1905 and 1940, a new culture arose in the aftershock of revolution on Europe’s semi-developed Eastern periphery that profoundly affected intellectuals on both the right and left. Modeling their thinking, often metaphorically, on public anxieties over imperial decline, this work is the product of a novel imaginary that not yet been appreciated as an intellectual tradition in its own right. |