Creolizing Rousseau - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 178348280X ISBN 13 : 9781783482801

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2014

Synopsis

In 1967, C.L.R. James, the much-celebrated Afro-Trinidadian Marxist, stated that he knew of no figure in history who had "such tremendous influence on such widely separated spheres of humanity" within a few years of his death as the eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. While this impact was most pronounced in revolutionary politics inspired by political theories that rejected basing political authority in monarchy, aristocracy, and the Church, it extended to European literature, to philosophies of education, and the articulation of the social sciences. But what particularly struck James about Rousseau was the strong resonance of his work in Caribbean thought and politics.

This volume illuminates these resonances by advancing a creolizing method of reading Rousseau that couples figures not typically engaged together, to create conversations among people of seemingly divided worlds in fact entangled by colonizing projects and histories. Doing this enables us to grapple with the meaning of creolization and the full range of Rousseau's legacies not only in contemporary Western Europe and the United States, but in the Francophone colonies, territories, and larger Global South.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jane Anna Gordon is Professor of Political Science and Social and Critical Inquiry (Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) at the University of Connecticut, USA. She is author of Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement, Creolizing Political Theory, and Why They Couldn't Wait, co-author of Of Divine Warning, and, most recently, co-editor of Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg and The Politics of Richard Wright. President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) from 2014-2017, Gordon continues to direct the CPA Summer School and to co-edit the organization's two book series, Creolizing the Canon and Global Critical Caribbean Studies. With Lewis R. Gordon, she is Executive Editor of the open access journal, Philosophy and Global Affairs.

Neil Roberts is John B. McCoy and John T. McCoy professor of Africana studies, political theory, and the philosophy of religion at Williams College, where he also serves as associate dean of the faculty. He has published widely on modern and contemporary political theory, politics in literature, and theories of freedom. His books include Freedom as Marronage and A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass. How to Live Free in an Age of Pessimism is his next monograph.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 178348280X
• ISBN 13: 9781783482801
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Éditeur: Gordon Jane Anna, Roberts Neil
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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