Choose your bearing : Édouard Glissant, human rights, and decolonial ethics / Benjamin P. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Benjamin P., author.

Series:

Contemporary continental ethics.

Contemporary continental ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Glissant, Édouard, 1928-2011--Ethics.

Glissant, Édouard.

Decolonization--Moral and ethical aspects.

Decolonization.

Human rights--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

What do we in the West owe those who grow our food, sew our clothes and produce our electronics? And what have we always owed one another, but forgotten, avoided, or simply disregarded?<br><br>Looking back on nearly a century of colonial war and genocide, in 1990 the poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant appealed directly to his readers, calling them to re-orient their lives in service of the political struggles of their time: 'You must choose your bearing'.<br><br>Informed by the prayer camps at Standing Rock, and presenting Glissant alongside Stuart Hall, Emmanuel Levinas, Simone Weil, Enrique Dussel, Gloria Anzaldúa and W. E. B. Du Bois, this book offers an urgent ethics for the present - an ethics of risk, commitment and care that together form a new sense of decolonial responsibility.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction: Starting from Responsibility and Human Rights

1. The Right to Opacity in Theory

2. The Right to Opacity in Practice

3. Solidarity beyond Participation

4. The Feasibility of Ethical Pursuits

5. The Limits of Ethics and the Question of Political Commitment

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2025).

ISBN:

1-3995-2245-0

OCLC:

1394022479