Achille Mbembe is one of the world's most profound critics of
colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence
of a new wave of French critical theory. His writings examine the
complexities of decolonization for African subjectivities and the
possibilities emerging in its wake. In Out of the Dark Night, he
offers a rich analysis of the paradoxes of the postcolonial moment
that points toward new liberatory models of community, humanity,
and planetarity. In a nuanced consideration of the African
experience, Mbembe makes sweeping interventions into debates about
citizenship, identity, democracy, and modernity. He eruditely
ranges across European and African thought to provide a powerful
assessment of common ways of writing and thinking about the world.
Mbembe criticizes the blinders of European intellectuals, analyzing
France's failure to heed postcolonial critiques of ongoing
exclusions masked by pretenses of universalism. He develops a new
reading of African modernity that further develops the notion of
Afropolitanism, a novel way of being in the world that has arisen
in decolonized Africa in the midst of both destruction and the
birth of new societies. Out of the Dark Night reconstructs critical
theory's historical and philosophical framework for understanding
colonial and postcolonial events and expands our sense of the
futures made possible by decolonization.
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