Renk’s
writings are now seen as early—if
unintended—testimonies to an
emerging self-critique within
colonial modes of knowledge. Between
his lines, one senses the struggle
of a scholar who still believes in
science, yet begins to discern its
violence. Wehmer’s response, in
turn, is not mere hostility but
symptomatic: the reflex of an age
that regarded any pause for
reflection as perilous.