Henry Caliban's Reason

Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-1-135-95880-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Africana Thought

Paget introduces the general reader to Afro-Caribbean philosophy in this ground-breaking work. Since Afro-Caribbean thought is inherently hybrid in nature, he traces the roots of this discourse in traditional African thought and in the Christian and Enlightenment traditions of Western Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Henry, Paget

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction

Part I: Sampling the Founding Texts
1. The African Philosophical Heritage
2. C. L. R. James, African, and Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
3. Frantz Fanon, African and Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
4. Wilson Harris and Caribbean Poeticism

Part II: Unity, Rationality and African Thought
5. Sylvia Wynter: Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Thought
6. Afro-American Philosophy: A Caribbean Perspective
7. Habermas, Phenomenology, and Rationality: An Africana Contribution

Part III: Reconstructing Caribbean Historiciam
8. Pan-Africanism and Philosophy: Race, Class, and Development
9. Caribbean Marxism: After the Neoliberal and Linguistic Turns
10. Caribbean Historicism: Toward Reconstruction

Conclusion
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paget Henry is Professor of Africana Studies and Sociology at Brown University. He is author of Peripheral Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Antigua (1985) and co- editor of Newer Caribbean: Decolonization, Democracy and Development (1983) and C.L.R. James' Caribbean (1992).