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Named Person: | Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Frantz Fanon; Frantz Fanon; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Frantz Fanon |
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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jane Anna Gordon |
ISBN: | 9780823254811 082325481X 9780823254828 0823254828 |
OCLC Number: | 856647604 |
Description: | xv, 294 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Delegitimating Decadent Discourses of Inquiry -- 2. Decolonizing Disciplinary Methods -- 3. Squaring the Circle: Rousseau's General Will -- 4. Creolizing the General Will: Fanonian National Consciousness -- 5. Thinking through Creolization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
Series Title: | Just ideas. |
Responsibility: | Jane Anna Gordon. |
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This book offers a fresh perspective on the concept of creolization and on salient debates in political theory concerning multiculturalism, comparative analysis, (trans)nationalism, and globalization, just to name a few; it therefore makes an important contribution to the field of political theory, as well as to many others."----Charles Walls, Bard College or Independent Scholar Creolizing Political Theory is a brilliant and innovative exercise in political theory. Through its creolized and highly nuanced reading of Rousseau - through Fanon - on the challenges confronting the practice of politics in the modern age, this work succeeds in taking both political theory and creole theory in new and enlightening directions. Further, it demonstrates ever so clearly the valuable contributions that Africana political theory can make to core concerns of Western political theory. A must read for scholars in the fields of political theory, Africana thought, and creole theory.----Paget Henry, Brown University Hello, Jean-Jacques! Hello, Frantz! An unexpected encounter between Rousseau, eighteen-century Swiss-born philosopher, and Fanon, twentieth-century psychiatrist and political visionary of Caribbean origin, is theory from the North meeting theory from the South. And thinking with creolization, a multifaceted notion with a history of crossing boundaries, opens new challenges for political studies as it does for other human sciences. Jane Anna Gordon is an incisive guide to its potential.----Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University, author of Transnational Connections Read more...


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- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, -- 1712-1778 -- Political and social views.
- Fanon, Frantz, -- 1925-1961 -- Political and social views.
- General will.
- Legitimacy of governments.
- Political science -- Philosophy.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
- PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
- Fanon, Frantz, -- 1925-1961.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, -- 1712-1778.
- Political and social views.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques -- 1712-1778
- Fanon, Frantz -- 1925-1961
- Politische Theorie
- Politiska och sociala åsikter.
- Politisk legitimitet.
- Statsvetenskap.
- Politisk teori.