Creolizing Rousseau

Herausgeber: Gordon, Jane Anna; Roberts, Neil

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Creolizing the Canon
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 669g
• ISBN-13: 9781783482801
• ISBN-10: 178348280X
• Artikelnr.: 41756178

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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: Toward a New Social Arithmetic Alexis Nouss
3. Beyond Négritude and Créolité: On Creolizing the Citizenship Contract Mickaella 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 Scholz
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