Glissant and the Middle Passage : Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss /
A reevaluation of Édouard Glissant that centers on the catastrophe of the Middle Passage and creates deep, original theories of trauma and Caribbeanness. While philosophy has undertaken the work of accounting for Europe's traumatic history, the field has not shown the same attention to the cat...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis, MN :
University of Minnesota Press
[2019]
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| Series: | Thinking theory.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctvh4zj15 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: between Europe and the Americas
- 1. Origins I: memory, root, abyss
- 2. Origins II: memory, future, abyss
- 3. Ontology of an abyssal subject
- 4. Aesthetics of an abyssal subject
- 5. Thinking and building: what is an intellectual?