Creolizing Hegel / edited by Michael Monahan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Monahan, Michael J., editor.

Series:

Creolizing the canon

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Philosophy--Caribbean Area.

Philosophy.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

vii, 279 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2017]

Summary:

Outside of the familiar territory of the Western canon 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, this book 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.

Contents:

Part I Reason, Logic, and Dialectic 23

1 Boundary, Ambivalence, Jaibería, or, How to Appropriate Hegel / Rocto Zambrana Zambrana, Rocto 25

2 C.L.R. James, Africana Transcendental Philosophy, and the Creolizing of Hegel / Paget Henry Henry, Paget 43

3 Thinking through the Negative: Adorno's Reading of Hegel / Stefan Bird-Pollan Bird-Pollan, Stefan 61

4 Why I Am So Wise: Hegelian Reflections on Whether Reason Can Be Enhanced / Richard Dien Winfield Winfield, Richard Dien 79

Part II History and Aesthetics 93

5 Revisiting "Hegel and Haiti": Postcolonial Readings of the Lord/Bondsman Dialectic / Nicholas A. Germana Germana, Nicholas A. 95

6 Hegel and Adorno on Negative Universal History: The Dialectics of Species-Life / Karen Ng Ng, Karen 113

7 Hegel among the Cannibals / Oscar Guardiola-Rivera Guardiola-Rivera, Oscar 135

8 Creolizing Hegel's Theory of Tragedy / Greg A. Graham Graham, Greg A. 153

9 Hegel, Musical Subjectivity, and Jazz / Craig Matarrese Matarrese, Craig 173

Part III Ethical Life, Law, and Politics 189

10 The Future Is Now: Leopoldo Zea's Hegelianism and the Liberation of the Mexican Past / Carlos Alberto Sánchez Sánchez, Carlos Alberto 191

11 Crossing Boundaries: Hegel, de Beauvoir, and hooks on Exclusion and Identity / Shannon M. Mussett Mussett, Shannon M. 205

12 Ideal Theory and Racial. Justice: Some Hegelian Considerations / Brandon Hogan Hogan, Brandon 225

13 Oppression, Legal Reform, and Hegel's Natural Law Internalism / Jeffrey A. Gauthier Gauthier, Jeffrey A. 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Creolizing Hegel.

ISBN:

9781786600233

1786600234

OCLC:

952368990

Publisher Number:

99972303352