Book presentation: Das Janusgesicht Europas

Götz Großklaus discusses his work »Das Janusgesicht Europas. Zur Kritik des kolonialen Diskurses« with the philologist and media scholar Jesús Muñoz Morcillo.

Why is the mental program of colonialism still so relevant globally today? It resonates in a multitude of literary texts that spread, normalize and legitimize the core message of the racially inferior »other« worldwide.

»Das Janusgesicht Europas. Zur Kritik des kolonialen Diskurses« (2017) by Götz Großklaus traces the repressed colonial prehistory of Europe's position as a world power and shows the continuity of the colonial process up to the present day of its global networking. The analysis of colonial events is carried out on the basis of fictional and non-fictional texts in the historical and systemic context of colonial world power. European self-reflection thus opens up ways of freeing oneself from the unacknowledged after-effects of colonial action and thought.

The event was held in German.