Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt - Couverture souple

Davis, Benjamin P.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1399548611 ISBN 13 : 9781399548618

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Is there a way of being human that could invite people away from today’s models of violence and consumerism? Looking forward to a new, increasingly creolized century, in 1997 the Martinican poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant asked, ‘Do we have the right and the means to live another dimension of humanity? But how?’

Building on the defense of human rights he outlined in Choose Your Bearing, Benjamin P. Davis traces figures of 'the human' and ‘humanity' in W. E. B. Du Bois, Édouard Glissant, Sylvia Wynter and Edward Said. He concludes with a reflection on Hannah Arendt’s post-war correspondence with Karl Jaspers, which offers lessons for a new humanism as we witness ongoing wars today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Benjamin P. Davis is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Simone Weil's Political Philosophy as well as Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights, and Decolonial Ethics, also by Edinburgh University Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1399548611
• ISBN 13: 9781399548618
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
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