Through a critique of Left realism, culturalism, and pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism, Gary Wilder insists that we place questions of solidarity and temporality at the center of Left political thinking. He makes a bold case for embracing a concrete utopian politics of the possible-impossible adequate to current planetary crises.
Through a critique of Left realism, culturalism, and pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism, Gary Wilder insists that we place questions of solidarity and temporality at the center of Left political thinking. He makes a bold case for embracing a concrete utopian politics of the possible-impossible adequate to current planetary crises.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Gary Wilder is Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is Professor in the PhD Program of Anthropology, with cross appointments in History and French. He is the author of Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity (Fordham University Press, 2022), Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke University Press, 2015), and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the World Wars (University of Chicago Press, 2005). He is coauthor of Theses on Theory and History (special issue of History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History, 2020) and two edited volumes, The Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for Life Is the Matter (Duke University Press, 2019) and The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present (Fordham University Press, 2018). He is currently writing a book on the political thought of C. L. R. James.
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Preface ix Introduction: The Opposite of Pessimism Is Not Optimism 1 I. Refiguring Politics 1. The Possible- Impossible: Dialectical Optics and Uncanny Refractions (Here, Now, Us) 17 2. Concrete Utopianism and Critical Internationalism: Refusing Left Realism 35 3. Practicing Translation: Beyond Left Culturalism 62 4. Of Pessimism and Presentism: Against Left Melancholy 86 Intermezzo 5. Solidarity 109 6. Anticipation 122 II. Unthinking History 7. Time as a Real Abstraction: Clock- Time, Nonsynchronism, Untimeliness 139 8. Dialectic of Past and Future 157 9. It's Still Happening Again: Ontology, Hauntology, and Ellison's Dialectics of Invisibility 191 10. A Prophetic Vision of the Past: Glissant's Poetics of Nonhistory 221 III. Anticipating Futures 11. The World We Wish to See 263 Acknowledgments 291 Notes 295 Index 363
Preface ix Introduction: The Opposite of Pessimism Is Not Optimism 1 I. Refiguring Politics 1. The Possible- Impossible: Dialectical Optics and Uncanny Refractions (Here, Now, Us) 17 2. Concrete Utopianism and Critical Internationalism: Refusing Left Realism 35 3. Practicing Translation: Beyond Left Culturalism 62 4. Of Pessimism and Presentism: Against Left Melancholy 86 Intermezzo 5. Solidarity 109 6. Anticipation 122 II. Unthinking History 7. Time as a Real Abstraction: Clock- Time, Nonsynchronism, Untimeliness 139 8. Dialectic of Past and Future 157 9. It's Still Happening Again: Ontology, Hauntology, and Ellison's Dialectics of Invisibility 191 10. A Prophetic Vision of the Past: Glissant's Poetics of Nonhistory 221 III. Anticipating Futures 11. The World We Wish to See 263 Acknowledgments 291 Notes 295 Index 363
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