Rövid leírás:
In this inventive and thoughtful study, renowned poet Jason Allen-Paisant provides a timely critical reappraisal of Aimé Césaire’s works. The book showcases Césaire as a major Black thinker, whose writings remain deeply relevant to today’s crises and debates.
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Hosszú leírás:
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.
Jason Allen-Paisant introduces us to a pedagogy of spirit in which the rigid divisions of Western thought, and the rigid Western interpretations of Aimé Césaire, are transformed into a homage to the daily inspirited materialities of African/diasporic social poiesis. The most original and inspiring reading of Césaire in decades.
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Tartalomjegyzék:
Introduction: Thinking with Spirits: An Unlearning
(Un)thinking Philosophy
Possession as Paradigm of Consciousness
Sound and Otherliness
Animist Time and the White Anthropocene
Coda: Reawakening an Animist Politics of the Self
Works Cited
Index
