Introduction -- Fanon and Sartre: colonial Manichaeism and the call to arms -- Decolonization, community, nationalism: Gandhi, Nandy and the Subaltern Studies Collective -- Foucault and Said: colonial discourse and Orientalism -- Derrida and Bhabha: self, other and postcolonial ethics -- Khatibi and Glissant: postcolonial ethics and the return to place -- Ethics with politics? Spivak, Mudimbe, Mbembe -- Conclusion: neocolonialism and the future of the discipline.