Research Catalog

Title

Creolizing political theory : reading Rousseau through Fanon / Jane Anna Gordon.

Author

Gordon, Jane Anna, 1976-

Publication

New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.

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Details

Description

xv, 294 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Might creolization offer political theory an approach that would better reflect the heterogeneity of political life? After all, it describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the plantation societies of the Caribbean but did so through their capacity to exemplify living culture, thought, and political practice. Similar processes continue today, when people who once were strangers find themselves unequal co-occupants of new political locations they both seek to call "home." Unlike multiculturalism, in which different cultures are thought to co-exist relatively separately, creolization describes how people reinterpret themselves through interaction with one another. While indebted to comparative political theory, Gordon offers a critique of comparison by demonstrating the generative capacity of creolizing methodologies. She does so by bringing together the eighteenth-century revolutionary Swiss thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the twentieth-century Martinican-born Algerian liberationist Frantz Fanon. While both provocatively challenged whether we can study the world in ways that do not duplicate the prejudices that sustain its inequalities, Fanon, she argues, outlined a vision of how to bring into being the democratically legitimate alternatives that Rousseau mainly imagined"--

Series Statement

Just ideas

Uniform Title

Just ideas.

Subject

• 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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- 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.

Call Number

JFE 14-3512

ISBN

• 9780823254811 (hardback)
• 082325481X (hardback)
• 9780823254828 (paper)
• 0823254828 (paper)

LCCN

2013019537

OCLC

856647604

Author

Gordon, Jane Anna, 1976- author.

Title

Creolizing political theory : reading Rousseau through Fanon / Jane Anna Gordon.

Publisher

New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Just ideas

Just ideas.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-3512