Creolizing political theory : reading Rousseau through Fanon / Jane Anna Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Jane Anna, 1976- author.

Series:

Just ideas.

Just Ideas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Political and social views.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.

Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961--Political and social views.

Fanon, Frantz.

General will.

Legitimacy of governments.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Might creolization offer political theory an approach that would better reflect the heterogeneity of political life? After all, it describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the plantation societies of the Caribbean but did so through their capacity to exemplify living culture, thought, and political practice. Similar processes continue today, when people who once were strangers find themselves unequal co-occupants of new political locations they both seek to call “home. ”Unlike multiculturalism, in which different cultures are thought to co-exist relatively separately, creolization describes how people reinterpret themselves through interaction with one another. While indebted to comparative political theory, Gordon offers a critique of comparison by demonstrating the generative capacity of creolizing methodologies. She does so by bringing together the eighteenth-century revolutionary Swiss thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the twentieth-century Martinican-born Algerian liberationist Frantz Fanon. While both provocatively challenged whether we can study the world in ways that do not duplicate the prejudices that sustain its inequalities, Fanon, she argues, outlined a vision of how to bring into being the democratically legitimate alternatives that Rousseau mainly imagined.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Delegitimating Decadent Inquiry

2. Decolonizing Disciplinary Methods

3. Rousseau’s General Will

4. Fanonian National Consciousness

5. Thinking Through Creolization

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8232-5482-8

0-8232-5484-4

0-8232-6088-7

0-8232-5485-2

OCLC:

875725438