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- ISBN 9781786600233
- Weight: 549g
- Dimensions: 159 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 09 Feb 2017
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The 19th-century German thinker G.W.F. Hegel is a towering figure in the canon of European philosophy. Indeed, most of the significant figures of European Philosophy after Hegel explicitly address his thought in their own work. Outside of the familiar territory of the Western canon, however, Hegel has also loomed large, most often as a villain, but sometimes also as a resource in struggles for liberation from colonialism, sexism and racism. Hegel understood his own work as aiming above freedom, yet ironically wrote texts that are not only explicitly Eurocentric and even racist. Should we, and is it even possible, to bring Hegelian texts and ideas into productive discourse with those he so often himself saw as distinctly Other and even inferior?
In response to this question, Creolizing Hegel brings together transdisciplinary scholars presenting various approaches to creolizing the work of Hegel. The essays in this volume take Hegelian texts and themes across borders of method, discipline, and tradition. The task is not simply to compare and contrast Hegel with some 'outsider' figure or tradition, but rather to reconsider and reconfigure our understandings of all of the figures and ideas brought together in these cross-disciplinary essays.
Michael J. Monahan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University. He is the author of The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity (2011).
Contributors: María Acosta, Philosophy, DePaul University, USA; Stefan Bird-Pollan, Philosophy, University of Kentucky, USA; Norman Ajari, Equipe de Recherche sur les Rationalités Philosophiques et les Savoirs (ERRAPHIS), Université de Toulouse, France; Jeffrey A. Gauthier, Philosophy, Portland University, USA; Nicholas A. Germana, Keene State College, USA; Nigel C. Gibson, Development Studies, Univeristy of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa; Greg Graham, African and African-American Studies, Oklahoma University, USA; Paget Henry, Brown University, USA; Brandon Hogan, Howard University, USA; Craig Matarrese, Mankato State University, USA; Shannon M. Mussett, Philosophy, Utah Valley University, USA; Karen Ng, Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, USA; Carlos Alberto Sánchez, Philosophy, San-Jose State University, USA; Ricardo Sanín Restrepo, Political and Legal Theory, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico; Richard Dien Winfield, Philosophy, University of Georgia, USA; Rocío Zambrana, Philosophy, University of Oregon, USA
