Approaching Edward Said's Humanism
The presence of the idea of humanism in Edward Said’s work is one of the most important problem of his thinking. In fact, the presence of both the reference to “humanist” legacy and a style of thinking rooted in French Post-structuralism appears as an unsolvable conundrum.In order to fully understa...
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The presence of the idea of humanism in Edward Said’s work is one of the most important problem of his thinking. In fact, the presence of both the reference to “humanist” legacy and a style of thinking rooted in French Post-structuralism appears as an unsolvable conundrum.In order to fully understand Saidian humanism it is important, first, to situate it in the postcolonial background. In particular, it must be grasped the relation between humanism and anti-colonial struggles. From a theoretical point of view, the best way to study the meaning of humanism is to start from Humanism and Democratic Criticism, that allows to analyse retrospectively the whole of Said’s works, showing the hidden coherence of his thought. Said’s theoretical elaboration, always very concise and sometimes unsatisfactory, is grounded mainly on two assumptionas inspired by the Neapolitan philosopher Giambattista Vico. First, the idea that human beings make their own history, and since they make it they can know it. Second, is that the “human nature” is constitutively undetermined. These assumptions permit to understand Saidian humanism, from a philosophical point of view, as a “humanism without man”, i.e a humanism that renounce to elaborate any onological-anthropological idea of “Man”. This idea cannot be “fixed” making it more inclusive, but the idea of “humanity” may be the basis of a non-binary and non-discriminative postcolonial thinking, if we accept the idea that humanity cannot be defined by any type of apriori rationality. |
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I10-R10-article-200342019-12-20T15:29:46Z Approaching Edward Said's Humanism Acerca del humanismo en Edward Said Scalercio, Mauro Said Humanism postcolonialism Orientalism Said Humanismo poscolonialismo orientalismo The presence of the idea of humanism in Edward Said’s work is one of the most important problem of his thinking. In fact, the presence of both the reference to “humanist” legacy and a style of thinking rooted in French Post-structuralism appears as an unsolvable conundrum.In order to fully understand Saidian humanism it is important, first, to situate it in the postcolonial background. In particular, it must be grasped the relation between humanism and anti-colonial struggles. From a theoretical point of view, the best way to study the meaning of humanism is to start from Humanism and Democratic Criticism, that allows to analyse retrospectively the whole of Said’s works, showing the hidden coherence of his thought. Said’s theoretical elaboration, always very concise and sometimes unsatisfactory, is grounded mainly on two assumptionas inspired by the Neapolitan philosopher Giambattista Vico. First, the idea that human beings make their own history, and since they make it they can know it. Second, is that the “human nature” is constitutively undetermined. These assumptions permit to understand Saidian humanism, from a philosophical point of view, as a “humanism without man”, i.e a humanism that renounce to elaborate any onological-anthropological idea of “Man”. This idea cannot be “fixed” making it more inclusive, but the idea of “humanity” may be the basis of a non-binary and non-discriminative postcolonial thinking, if we accept the idea that humanity cannot be defined by any type of apriori rationality. La presencia de la idea de humanismo en la obra de Edward Said es uno de los problemas más grandes del pensamiento del intelectual palestino-estadounitense. De hecho, parece una aporía irresoluble la presencia en el pensamiento de Said de un estilo de pensamiento que tiene sus raíces en el post-estructuralismo francés y de una reivindicación de la herencia “humanista”. Para entender el humanismo saidiana es importante, en primer lugar situar el humanismo saidiano en el ámbito poscolonial. En particular, es importante comprenderla relación entre el humanismo y las luchas anticoloniales. Desde un punto de vista teórico, la mejor manera de enfrentar el problema de humanismo es a partir del libro Humanismo y crítica democrática, que permite de analizar retrospectivamente toda la producción cultural de Said, desvelando la coherencia oculta de su pensamiento. La elaboración teórica de Said, que siempre es muy conciso y a veces insatisfactoria, se funda esencialmente sobre dos supuesto derivado del filósofo napolitano Giambattista Vico. El primer presupuesto se basa sobre sobre el principio clave de Vico, o sea la idea que los seres humanos hagan su propia historia y, por hacerla, la puedan conocer. El segundo supuesto teórico saidiano, igualmente derivado de Vico, es la constitutiva indefinición de la “naturaleza humana”. A través de estos presupuestos, el humanismo saidiano se puede entender, por su construcción filosófica,como “humanismo sin hombre” en el sentido que renuncia a establecer cualquier definición ontológico-antropológica del “Hombre”. La idea de hombre no se puede rescatar simplemente haciéndola más inclusiva, pero la idea de humanidad sí se puede tomar como base de un pensamiento poscolonial, no binario y no excluyente, si se acepta que la humanidadno se puede definir a través de ningún tipo de racionalidad a priori. Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades 2019-08-10 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/intersticios/article/view/20034 Interstices of politics and culture. Latin American interventions; Vol. 8 No. 15 (2019): Racismo, negritud y género: África, América Latina y el Caribe; 89-113 Intersticios de la política y la cultura. Intervenciones latinoamericanas; Vol. 8 Núm. 15 (2019): Racismo, negritud y género: África, América Latina y el Caribe; 89-113 Intersticipações de política e cultura. Intervenções na América Latina; v. 8 n. 15 (2019): Racismo, negritud y género: África, América Latina y el Caribe; 89-113 2250-6543 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/intersticios/article/view/20034/24391 Derechos de autor 2019 Mauro Scalercio |