Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment - Brossura

Nesbitt, Nick

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ISBN 10: 0813928036 ISBN 13: 9780813928036

Casa editrice: Univ of Virginia Pr, 2008

Riassunto

Unlike the American and French Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution was the first in a modern state to implement human rights universally and unconditionally. Going well beyond the selective emancipation of white adult male property owners, the Haitian Revolution is of vital importance, Nick Nesbitt argues, in thinking today about the urgent problems of social justice, human rights, imperialism, torture, and, above all, human freedom.

Combining archival research, political philosophy, and intellectual history, Nesbitt explores this fundamental event of modern history--the invention of universal emancipation--both in the context of the Age of Enlightenment (Spinoza, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel) and in relation to certain key figures (Rancière, Laclau, Habermas) and trends (such as the turn to ethics, human rights, and universalism) in contemporary political philosophy. In doing so, he elucidates the theoretical implications of Haiti's revolution both for the eighteenth century and for the twenty-first century. Universal Emancipation will be of interest not only to scholars and students of the Haitian Revolution and postcolonial francophone studies but also to readers interested in critical theory and its relation to history and political science.

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L'autore:

Nick Nesbitt is Senior Lecturer in French at the Center for Modern Thought at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He is the author of Voicing Memory: History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature (Virginia).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Virginia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0813928036
• ISBN 13: 9780813928036
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 261