Another Humanity : Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt / Benjamin P. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Benjamin P., Author.

Series:

Contemporary Continental Ethics : CCE

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.) : 1 black and white photograph

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Is there a way of being human that could invite people away from today’s models of violence and consumerism? Looking forward to a new, increasingly creolized century, in 1997 the Martinican poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant asked, ‘Do we have the right and the means to live another dimension of humanity? But how?’ Building on the defense of human rights he outlined in Choose Your Bearing, Benjamin P. Davis traces figures of 'the human' and ‘humanity' in W. E. B. Du Bois, Édouard Glissant, Sylvia Wynter and Edward Said. He concludes with a reflection on Hannah Arendt’s post-war correspondence with Karl Jaspers, which offers lessons for a new humanism as we witness ongoing wars today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: Thinking Race and Humanity Together (An Attempt)

PART I: DETOUR THROUGH THEORY

PART II: RISKING THE PERSONAL

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Apr 2025)

ISBN:

9781399548595

139954859X