I am still reading, perhaps for the third time, Professor Fathi Meskini's latest book, "This Self Is Not Yours: Decolonial Rifts." It is a revolt against the West by a Tunisian philosopher, indeed a philosopher whose work has been preoccupied with Western Enlightenment philosophy for over forty years. Professor Meskini does not belong to the philosophical school known as the Subaltern, which has followed Edward Said's language and ideas to their…
I am still reading, perhaps for the third time, Professor Fathi Meskini's latest book, "This Self Is Not Yours: Decolonial Rifts." It is a revolt against the West by a Tunisian philosopher, indeed a philosopher whose work has been preoccupied with Western Enlightenment philosophy for over forty years. Professor Meskini does not belong to the philosophical school known as the Subaltern, which has followed Edward Said's language and ideas to their…