| Creolizing Rousseau Contributor(s): Gordon, Jane Anna (Editor), Roberts, Neil (Editor) |
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ISBN: 178348280X ISBN-13: 9781783482801 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $174.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political - Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 320.092 |
| LCCN: 2014038881 |
| Series: Creolizing the Canon |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.25 lbs) 316 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1967, C.L.R. James, the much-celebrated Afro-Trinidadian Marxist, stated that he knew of no figure in history who had "such tremendous influence on such widely separated spheres of humanity" within a few years of his death as the eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. While this impact was most pronounced in revolutionary politics inspired by political theories that rejected basing political authority in monarchy, aristocracy, and the Church, it extended to European literature, to philosophies of education, and the articulation of the social sciences. But what particularly struck James about Rousseau was the strong resonance of his work in Caribbean thought and politics. This volume illuminates these resonances by advancing a creolizing method of reading Rousseau that couples figures not typically engaged together, to create conversations among people of seemingly divided worlds in fact entangled by colonizing projects and histories. Doing this enables us to grapple with the meaning of creolization and the full range of Rousseau's legacies not only in contemporary Western Europe and the United States, but in the Francophone colonies, territories, and larger Global South. |
Contributor Bio(s): Roberts, Neil: - 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.Gordon, Jane Anna: - Jane Anna Gordon is Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at the 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). |