Description
Caribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric Critical Theory. The book argues that their singular project has been to forge a brand of critique that, while borrowing from North Atlantic predecessors such as Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Sartre, was from the start indelibly marked by the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonialism. Chapters and sections address figures such as Toussaint Louverture, Baron de Vastey, Victor Schoelcher, Aime Cesaire, Rene Menil, Frantz Fanon, Maryse Conde, and Edouard Glissant, while an extensive theoretical introduction defines the essential parameters of 'Caribbean Critique.'
The first ever account of the Caribbean's writing from a philosophical standpoint. Essential reading for researchers and graduate students of contemporary French philosophy, especially the currently flourishing revival of neo-Marxist thought around Badiou, Ranciere and Zizek. For specialists in postcolonial theory the book offers a challenging reconceptualization of their field, while for specialists in French Caribbean writing, it provides a new perspective on already well-known authors
About the Author
Nick Nesbitt is Professor of French and Italian at Princeton University. His books include 'Voicing Memory: History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature' (University of Virginia Press, 2003) and 'Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment' (University of Virginia Press, 2008).
Reviews
'This is a very important and exciting book. Extending to the whole of the French Caribbean his previous work on the philosophical bases of the Haitian Revolution, Nesbitt has produced the first ever account of the region's writing from a consistently philosophical, as distinct from literary or historical, standpoint.'
Celia Britton
'... the book fills an important gap in francophone Caribbean studies, which has always had a strong theoretical component but, arguably, has not previously been subject to such a rigorously philosophical critical treatment. ... latest study will prove to be a landmark, indeed seminal, work in Caribbean Critique.'
French Studies
'Nesbitt's book may be read as a survey, it also offers extremely succinct, complex, and compelling new perspectives on polemical issues that inhabit our work as professors, pedagogues, and intellectuals today...'
Contemporary French Civilization
'Nesbitt has made an important and highly original contribution to such debates.'
New West Indian Guide
Reviews 'A prodigiously researched and compelling conceptualisation of francophone Caribbean critical thought.'
Gabriella Rodriguez, SX Salon
Book Information
ISBN 9781786940384
Author Nick Nesbitt
Format Paperback
Page Count 346
Imprint Liverpool University Press
Publisher Liverpool University Press
The first ever account of the Caribbean's writing from a philosophical standpoint. Essential reading for researchers and graduate students of contemporary French philosophy, especially the currently flourishing revival of neo-Marxist thought around Badiou, Ranciere and Zizek. For specialists in postcolonial theory the book offers a challenging reconceptualization of their field, while for specialists in French Caribbean writing, it provides a new perspective on already well-known authors
About the Author
Nick Nesbitt is Professor of French and Italian at Princeton University. His books include 'Voicing Memory: History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature' (University of Virginia Press, 2003) and 'Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment' (University of Virginia Press, 2008).
Reviews
'This is a very important and exciting book. Extending to the whole of the French Caribbean his previous work on the philosophical bases of the Haitian Revolution, Nesbitt has produced the first ever account of the region's writing from a consistently philosophical, as distinct from literary or historical, standpoint.'
Celia Britton
'... the book fills an important gap in francophone Caribbean studies, which has always had a strong theoretical component but, arguably, has not previously been subject to such a rigorously philosophical critical treatment. ... latest study will prove to be a landmark, indeed seminal, work in Caribbean Critique.'
French Studies
'Nesbitt's book may be read as a survey, it also offers extremely succinct, complex, and compelling new perspectives on polemical issues that inhabit our work as professors, pedagogues, and intellectuals today...'
Contemporary French Civilization
'Nesbitt has made an important and highly original contribution to such debates.'
New West Indian Guide
Reviews 'A prodigiously researched and compelling conceptualisation of francophone Caribbean critical thought.'
Gabriella Rodriguez, SX Salon
Book Information
ISBN 9781786940384
Author Nick Nesbitt
Format Paperback
Page Count 346
Imprint Liverpool University Press
Publisher Liverpool University Press
