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 Rousseaus legacies not only in contemporary Western Europe and the United States, but in the Francophone colonies, territories, and larger Global South.
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Weight: 603g
Dimensions: 164 x 239mm
Publication Date: 18 Dec 2014
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781783482801
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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 Couldnt Wait: A Critique of the Black-Jewish Conflict Over Community Control in Ocean-Hill Brownsville 19671971 (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 Akma 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