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8 | (Neo)colonialism and Anticolonialism

What's Left of Philosophy

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The Mendacious Universalism, Isn't It?

I think his issue with the, with the pc ethelot at t much of the time, is that it's a kind of false universalism. He takes them to task for having basically given tacit approval of some i guess. And nowhere is the mendacity more evident than in there, you know, their relationship to the algerian revolution and to the war in algeria. I'm going to ask a hard question, because it seems to me the other reason why this, the way we describe this top down structure f this mendacious universalism, doesn't work, is because it also is epistemologically stunting. How does one start to aligne those things?

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