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Édouard Glissant, Philosopher : Heraclitus and Hegel in the Whole-World / Alexandre Leupin ; translated by Andrew Brown.
Van Pelt Library PQ3949.2.G53 Z74 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leupin, Alexandre, 1948- author.
- Series:
- SUNY series in contemporary French thought
- Standardized Title:
- Héraclite et Hegel dans le Tout-Monde. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Glissant, Édouard, 1928-2011--Philosophy.
- Glissant, Édouard.
- Glissant, Édouard, 1928-2011--Criticism and interpretation.
- Heraclitus, of Ephesus.
- Heraclitus.
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.
- Glissant, Édouard, 1928-2011.
- Philosophy in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 309 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- One of the greatest writers of the late twentieth century, Edouard Glissant's body of work covers multiple genres and addresses many cogent contemporary problems, such as borders, multiculturalism, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and global humanities. This book maps out this writer's entire work in relation to philosophy.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 "The immense foliage of a Louisiana oak, like a flattened palaver tree"
- ch. 2 "Repetition is not an unnecessary duplication"
- ch. 3 "I do not reject, I establish correlation"
- ch. 4 "This need to go beyond one's own subjectivity"
- ch. 5 "Everything is in everything"
- ch. 6 "Universality has no language"
- ch. 7 "Bounds, breaks and sudden leaps"
- ch. 8 "Only the poets"
- ch. 9 "The beauty of beauty"
- ch. 10 "The dispute, one of the safest and oldest reinforcements of thought"
- ch. 11 "We do not name Relation"
- ch. 12 "Now there are only beings"
- ch. 13 "The slave is the one who does not know, but who desires with all his strength to know"
- ch. 14 "I change things, through exchanging with the other, and yet without destroying or distorting myself"
- ch. 15 "And so we bring down (as if literally) the letter of the world"
- ch. 16 "Imagine a thousand birds taking flight over an African lake"
- ch. 17 "The continuity of the living is a spiral that does not fear to be interrupted"
- ch. 18 "Yes, yes, everything is alive".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438483252
- 1438483252
- 9781438483269
- 1438483260
- OCLC:
- 1226479716
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