2019/07/19 by Lisa Lowe, Kris Manjapra · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Foucault, Power, and Ethics #Japanese History and Culture #Translation Studies and Practices
paper · doi:10.1177/0263276419854795
openalex publication_date 2019/07/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
The core concept of ‘the human’ that anchors so many humanities disciplines – history, literature, art history, philosophy, religion, anthropology, political theory, and others – issues from a very particular modern European definition of Man ‘over-represented’ as the human. The history of modernity and of modern disciplinary knowledge formations are, in this sense, a history of modern European forms monopolizing the definition of the human and placing other variations at a distance from the human. This article is an interdisciplinary research that decenters Man-as-human as the subject/object of inquiry, and proposes a relational analytic that reframes established orthodoxies of area, geography, history and temporality. It also involves new readings of traditional archives, finding alternative repositories and practices of knowledge and collection to radically redistribute our ways of understanding the meaning of the human.