Political Science · Comparative Political Analysis
UGC NET June 2025 Political Science
Who developed a 'humanist critique of the Western Enlightenment that uncovered its links to colonialism and highlighted a narrative of oppression, cultural and ideological biases that disempowered colonized peoples by representing them as the non-Western other'?
AAristotle
BEdward Said ✓ Correct
CWoodrow Wilson
DSubhas Chandra Bose
Correct answer: (B) Edward Said — Edward Said developed this humanist critique of the Western Enlightenment, so he is the answer.
Explanation
★Edward Said developed this humanist critique of the Western Enlightenment, so he is the answer.
★He set it out in his 1978 work Orientalism (1978).
★He showed how Western scholarship represented the East as the non-Western other.
★These representations carried cultural and ideological biases that justified colonial rule.
★Said called this a narrative of oppression that disempowered colonised peoples.
★Postcolonial theory casts the East, or Orient, as the West's ultimate other.
★His work founded much of postcolonial studies.
★Aristotle, Woodrow Wilson and Subhas Chandra Bose are not the source of this critique.
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