Kant’s ‘raw man’ and the miming of primitivism: Spivak’s Critique of Postcolonial Reason
…we read [in Herderʼs text]: ʻIt would be an easy principle, but an evil one, to maintain in the philosophy of human history than man is an animal who needs a master, and who expects from this master, or from his association with him, the happiness of his ultimate destiny.ʼ … [We read further that] […]
