Creolizing Hegel

Michael Monahan

doi:10.5771/9781786600257

Summary

The 19th-century German thinker G.W.F. Hegel is a towering figure in the canon of European philosophy. Indeed, most of the significant figures of European Philosophy after Hegel explicitly address his thought in their own work. Outside of the familiar territory of the Western canon, however, Hegel has also loomed large, most often as a villain, but sometimes also as a resource in struggles for liberation from colonialism, sexism and racism. Hegel understood his own work as aiming above freedom, yet ironically wrote texts that are not only explicitly Eurocentric and even racist. Should we, and is it even possible, to bring Hegelian texts and ideas into productive discourse with those he so often himself saw as distinctly Other and even inferior?

In response to this question, Creolizing Hegel brings together transdisciplinary scholars presenting various approaches to creolizing the work of Hegel. The essays in this volume take Hegelian texts and themes across borders of method, discipline, and tradition. The task is not simply to compare and contrast Hegel with some 'outsider' figure or tradition, but rather to reconsider and reconfigure our understandings of all of the figures and ideas brought together in these cross-disciplinary essays.

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Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-78660-024-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-78660-025-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 280
Product type: Edited Book

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. On Creolization as Movement and Praxis No access
2. Creolization and the Movement of Reason No access
3. Brief Sketch of the Work as a Whole No access
4. Notes No access
1. 1. Double Coloniality, Decolonial Strategies No access
  2. Boundaries, Constraints No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Notes No access
2. 1. Foundations of James’ Interest in Hegel’s Dialectic No access
  2. James and Hegel’s Science of Logic No access
  3. Between James and Hegel: Dialectic and Self-Transformation and Creolization No access
  4. Dialectic and Self-Transformation in Hegel No access
  5. Dialectic and Self-Transformation in James No access
  6. The Creole Aspects of James’ Mature Dialectic No access
  7. Conclusion: James, Creolization, and Afro-Caribbean Philosophy No access
3. 1. Adorno’s Model of the Subject and the Spontaneity-.Receptivity Thesis No access
  2. Species of Thought, Nonidentity Thinking, Identity Thinking, and Pathological Identity Thinking No access
  3. Adorno’s Reading of Hegel No access
  4. Embracing Hegel No access
  5. Notes No access
4. 1. Notes No access
1. 1. The Struggle for Recognition No access
  2. “Hegel and Haiti” No access
  3. The History of a Fruitful Misreading No access
  4. Biko and Black Consciousness No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
2. 1. Universal History and Species-Life No access
  2. Two Senses of Negativity in Negative Universal History No access
  3. Conclusion: Negative Universal Histories in Fanon and Lynn Hunt No access
  4. Notes No access
3. 1. Ways of Seeing and Sighting No access
  2. Hegelian Anthropophagy No access
  3. The Plot Thickens (Voraciously and Infinitely) No access
  4. Hegel’s (Risky) Investment No access
  5. Hegel Invited to Dinner with the Amerindians: Against the Liquidation of the Future No access
  6. Notes No access
4. 1. Creolization in Context No access
  2. Hegel’s Aesthetics No access
  3. Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy No access
  4. The Radical Africana Tradition and Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy No access
  5. Notes No access
5. 1. Beneath the Score No access
  2. Selfhood and Musical Time No access
  3. Instrumental Music and Time-Feel No access
  4. Performance, Improvisation, and Style No access
  5. Notes No access
1. 1. Zea’s Reading of Hegel’s Philosophy of History No access
  2. Zea’s “The Dialectic of Consciousness in Mexico” (1952) No access
  3. The Mexican Case No access
  4. Creolizing Hegel No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. The Hegelian Other: Nature, the Feminine, and Africa No access
  2. de Beauvoir Reading with and against Hegel No access
  3. The hooksian Other: Nature, the Feminine, and Africa No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
3. 1. Rawls’ A Theory of Justice No access
  2. Mills on Rawls No access
  3. Rawls and Justification No access
  4. Recognition and Normativity No access
  5. Notes No access
4. 1. Hegel and Natural Law “Internalism” No access
  2. Natural Law Internalism and Social Critique No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Notes No access
Works Cited No access Pages 257 - 274
Index No access Pages 275 - 278
List of Contributors No access Pages 279 - 280