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Creolizing Rousseau (Paperback)
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Creolizing Rousseau (Paperback)
Series: Creolizing the Canon
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In 1967, C.L.R. James, the much-celebrated Afro-Trinidadian
Marxist, stated that he knew of no figure in history who had "such
tremendous influence on such widely separated spheres of humanity"
within a few years of his death as the eighteenth-century
philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. While this impact was most
pronounced in revolutionary politics inspired by political theories
that rejected basing political authority in monarchy, aristocracy,
and the Church, it extended to European literature, to philosophies
of education, and the articulation of the social sciences. But what
particularly struck James about Rousseau was the strong resonance
of his work in Caribbean thought and politics. This volume
illuminates these resonances by advancing a creolizing method of
reading Rousseau that couples figures not typically engaged
together, to create conversations among people of seemingly divided
worlds in fact entangled by colonizing projects and histories.
Doing this enables us to grapple with the meaning of creolization
and the full range of Rousseau's legacies not only in contemporary
Western Europe and the United States, but in the Francophone
colonies, territories, and larger Global South.
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