Creolizing Rousseau - Brossura

Gordon, Jane

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1783482818 ISBN 13: 9781783482818

Casa editrice: Rli, 2014

Riassunto

Advancing a creolizing reading of the eighteenth-century philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this volume explores Rousseau's strong resonances in Caribbean thought and politics.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Jane Anna Gordon is associate professor of political science and Africana Studies at University of Connecticut and President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. Her books include Why They Couldn’t Wait: A Critique of the Black-Jewish Conflict Over Community Control in Ocean-Hill Brownsville, 1967–1971 (2001), Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age (2010) and Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Fanon (2014).

Neil Roberts is associate professor of Africana studies and faculty affiliate in political science at Williams College and an executive officer of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. He is the author of Freedom as Marronage (2015) and editor of the forthcoming A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass.

Contributors
Chiji Ak?ma, Associate Professor of English, Villanova University; Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Education, Rhode Island College; Jane Anna Gordon, Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies, University of Connecticut; Paget Henry, Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, Brown University; Charles W. Mills, John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Northwestern University; Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Rutgers University; Alexis Nouss, Professor of Comparative Literature, Aix-Marseille University; Mickaella Perina, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Nalini Persram, Associate Professor of Social Science, York University; Neil Roberts, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science, Williams College; Sally J. Scholz, Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University

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Creolizing Rousseau

By Jane Anna Gordon, Neil Roberts

Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd.

Copyright © 2015 Jane Anna Gordon, Neil Roberts and contributors
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ISBN: 978-1-78348-281-8

Contents

Introduction: The Project of Creolizing Rousseau Jane Anna Gordon and Neil Roberts, 
1 Comparative Political Theory, Creolization, and Reading Rousseau through Fanon Jane Anna Gordon, 
2 Between Mestiçagem and Cosmopolitanism: Towards a New Social Arithmetic Alexis Nouss, 
3 Beyond Négritude and Créolité: On Creolizing the Citizenship Contract Mickaella L. Perina, 
4 Anténor Firmin, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Racial Inequality Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, 
5 Rousseau and Fanon on Inequality and the Human Sciences Nelson Maldonado-Torres, 
6 C. L. R. James, Political Philosophy, and the Creolizing of Rousseau and Marx Paget Henry, 
7 Rousseau, the Master's Tools, and Anti-Contractarian Contractarianism Charles W. Mills, 
8 Rousseau, Flight, and the Fall into Slavery Neil Roberts, 
9 Pacha Mama, Rousseau, and the Femini: How Nature Can Revive Politics Nalini Persram, 
10 Virtuous Bacchanalia: Creolizing Rousseau's Festival Chiji Akoma and Sally J. Scholz, 
Bibliography, 
About the Contributors, 

CHAPTER 1

Comparative Political Theory, Creolization, and Reading Rousseau through Fanon

Jane Anna Gordon

The awareness of mixed origins does not mean that individuals can spontaneously retrace the flows that contributed to shaping their current practices and environment. Indeed, the long-term impact of cultural imports is often proportional to the capacity to forget that they were once acquired or imposed ... How many Italians today do not see the tomato as an intrinsic part of their cultural heritage? How many Native American leaders would dare to reject the horse as culturally foreign? ... [W]e could prolong the list interminably in a number of directions: Latin America without Christianity, India without English, Argentina without Germans, Texas without cattle, the Caribbean without blacks or rum, England without tea ... Culturally, the world we inherit today is the product of global flows that started in the late fifteenth century and continue to affect human populations today. Yet the history of the world is rarely told in these terms. Indeed, the particularity of the dominant narratives of globalization is a massive silencing of the past on a world scale, the systematic erasure of continuous and deep-felt encounters that have marked human history throughout the globe.

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot (2003: 34)

I offer, in what follows, a discussion and critique of comparative political theory, an outline of what it means to creolize political theory, and present an example of this alternative approach through bringing together the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Frantz Fanon.

COMPARATIVE POLITICAL THEORY AND DISAVOWAL

The terrain within the U.S. academy for creolizing political theory was significantly prepared by recent developments in the subfield of comparative political theory. Informed fundamentally by hermeneutics and postcolonial thought, comparative political theory has, from the outset, aimed to expand what is designated thought, in the words of Roxanne Euben, to ensure that "'political theory' is about human and not merely Western dilemmas ... [making] room for the possibility that there is humanly significant knowledge outside the confines of the Western canon" (1999: 9 — 10). For Fred Dallmayr (2004), echoing the challenge of Leo Straus

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Rli
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1783482818
• ISBN 13: 9781783482818
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 316
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