'something to do with lovers a hundred years ago'.
somos cegos, dizia o Saramago. e somos.
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não é bem mas é também o que eu queria 'dizer': Can non-Europeans think? (não devem poder visto que a filosofia é uma criação europeia. ou... ), um artigo a propósito de Zizek. é o nós-eles, tal como Americans-Native Americans. há muitos nós-eles.
de que lado estamos desta muralha:
"The question of Eurocentricism is now entirely blase. Of course Europeans are Eurocentric and see the world from their vantage point, and why should they not? They are the inheritors of multiple (now defunct) empires and they still carry within them the phantom hubris of those empires and they think their particular philosophy is "philosophy" and their particular thinking is "thinking", and everything else is - as the great European philosopher Immanuel Levinas was wont of saying - "dancing".
The question is rather the manner in which non-European thinking can reach self-consciousness and evident universality, not at the cost of whatever European philosophers may think of themselves for the world at large, but for the purpose of offering alternative (complementary or contradictory) visions of reality more rooted in the lived experiences of people in Africa, in Asia, in Latin America - counties and climes once under the spell of the thing that calls itself "the West" but happily no more."
se bem que este seja um autor iraniano a ensinar numa universidade de Nova Iorque (o contrário talvez seja mais complicado, não sei), este happily no more tem pano para pensamento.
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