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Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Jason Allen-Paisant

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

160

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

21.1x13.2x1.8 cm

Peso

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9780192867223

Categorías

Teoría literaria
Semiótica/semiología
Política y gobierno
Filosofía social y política

Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits (en Inglés)

Jason Allen-Paisant (Autor) · Oxford University Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits (en Inglés)"

Aimé Césaire is due a major critical reinterpretation and that is exactly what this book carries out. Through an in-depth grasp of the trajectory and core significance of Césaire's work, Jason Allen-Paisant highlights a set of links it makes between 'spirit, ' 'poetry, ' and 'knowing'. These explications, setting Césaire's work in relation to a rigorously accounted for set of influences, reframe how we understand his writings, enhancing their philosophical, rather than merely political, aspects. Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits is about more than Negritude (which has come to mean something less than a deep poetic sensibility with its own aspirational aesthetics and metaphysics, and rather something more like a fantasy-ridden iteration of pan-Africanism). It shows an Aimé Césaire deeply relevant to today: to the crises of ecological collapse, capitalist dystopias, and ideologies predicated upon fear and the threat of foreigners; and to contemporary chatter around interspecies collaboration and the need to rethink the entrepreneurial subject of Western political thought. Recasting Césaire's work is not just a matter of transforming a significant figure. It is also about rethinking legacies. This book is an engagement in the truest sense--the work of a contemporary Black poet who expounds the ways in which Césaire's work articulates for him a new politics of the self.