PhD in Political Sciences and staff member of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Tehran University. Iran
Abstract
Post-cold War makes necessarily, the restructuring of the East-West relationship. Chorges in developing countries caused some intellectual advantores. This tread led to the critique of colonialism. Yet, post-colonialists calim there is a really radical critique of colonialism, because conventional theories neglect knowledge, for them, the new stage of anti-colonialism has been begun by the critique of western reason and its impact on third world.
Also, post-modern critique of modernity and westernism interpreted in the different post-colonial perspectives is African philosophy and subalter study group. Accordingly, post-colonial thinkers synthesize some contemporary western theories with traditional interpretations. Each of them reach to a new understanding of colonialism.