• False Differends : Racial Slavery and the Genocidal Example Vaziri, Parisa 2022 Philosophy Today , Vol. 66 , Issue 2 , S. 237 ff. ( Zeitschrift ) Englisch 0031-8256 | 2329-8596 Abstract

    The Holocaust serves as a foundational critical resource in postwar philosophy. Interventions into the logic of its exemplarity tend to treat exemplarity as a matter of archival selection that ignores earlier histories of genocide and slavery. A recent example is Alexander Weheliye’s critique of Giorgio Agamben (Habeaus Viscus), which seeks to restitute racial slavery as a theoretically significant moment of biological precarity. In a continuation of this logic, this essay introduces the history of Indian Ocean slavery, which precedes transatlantic slavery but is comparatively lesser known. In doing so, I suggest that complaints against archival selection do not go far enough, for they do not address the problem of a kind of event whose very nature is to destroy its own archive. Reading Jean-François Lyotard’s differend as a critique of the modern genre-supremacy of historiography, I argue that the very ground of historical examples (namely, the demand that there be proof) demonstrates the regressive nature of exemplarity itself.

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Vaziri, Parisa
Catholic Tradition
Contemporary Philosophy
Continental Philosophy

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