Hostname: page-component-77f85d65b8-zzw9c Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-04-17T15:27:28.310Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Schutte's Nietzschean Postcolonial Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Linda Martín Alcoff
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Much of Ofelia Schutte's work has been focused on the question of liberation, especially for women and for colonized peoples. In this paper I discuss some of the important contributions she has made toward understanding the difficulty of dialogue across differences of culture and power, and toward thinking through the relationships of culture, identity, and social justice. Although I generally agree with Schutte's positions, I try here to initiate a dialogue about some conflicting tendencies I see in her positions. Specifically, I challenge her reliance on Nietzsche in developing a general approach to the question of liberation.

Information

Type
Symposium
Information
Hypatia , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , Summer 2004 , pp. 144 - 156
Copyright
Copyright © 2004 by Hypatia, Inc.

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Gracia, Jorge J. E. 1986. Latin American philosophy in the twentieth century. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books.Google Scholar
Henry, Paget. 2000. Caliban's reason: Introducing Afro‐Caribbean philosophy. New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
Loomba, Ania. 1998. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
Nietzsche, Friedrich. 1983. On the uses and disadvantages of history for life. In Untimely meditations. Trans. Hollingdale, R. J.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Schutte, Ofelia. 1984. Beyond nihilism: Nietzsche without masks. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Schutte, Ofelia. 1993. Cultural identity and social liberation in Latin American thought. Albany: State University of New York Press.Google Scholar
Schutte, Ofelia. 1994. Nietzsche's psychology of gender difference. In Modern engendering: Critical feminist readings in modern Western philosophy, ed. Bar On, Bat‐Ami. Albany; State University of New York Press.Google Scholar
Schutte, Ofelia. 1999. Nietzsche's cultural politics. The Southern Journal of Philosophy 37 (Supplement): 65–72.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schutte, Ofelia. 2000a. Continental philosophy and postcolonial subjects. Philosophy Today 44 (SPEP Supplement): 8–17.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schutte, Ofelia. 2000b. Cultural alterity: Cross‐cultural communication and feminist theory in North‐South contexts. In Decentering the center: Philosophy for a multicultural, postcolonial, and feminist world, ed. Narayan, Uma and Harding, Sandra, 47–66. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Originally published in Hypatia 1998: 13 (2).Google Scholar
Schutte, Ofelia. 2000c. Negotiating Latina identities. In Hispanics/Latinos in the United States: Ethnicity, race, and rights, ed. Gracia, Jorge J.E. and DeGreiff, Pablo. New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
Schutte, Ofelia. 2000d. Political and market development: An ethical appraisal. Journal of Social Philosophy 31 (4): 453–64.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schutte, Ofelia. 2001. Latin America and postmodernity: Ruptures and continuities in the concept of “our America.” In Latin America and postmodernity: A contemporary reader, ed. Lange‐Churion, Pedro and Mendieta, Eduardo. Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books.Google Scholar
Schutte, Ofelia. 2002. Women, dependency, and the global economy. In The subject of care: Feminist perspectives on dependency, ed. Kittay, Eva and Feder, Ellen. Rowman and Littlefield.Google Scholar
Wynter, Sylvia. 2000. The re‐enchantment of humanism: An interview with Sylvia Wynter. Interview by David Scott. Small Axe 8, September 2000, 119–207.Google Scholar