Universal Emancipation

Author : Nick Nesbitt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Download or read book Universal Emancipation written by Nick Nesbitt and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Haitian Revolution was the first in a modern state to implement human rights universally and unconditionally. Going beyond the selective emancipation of white adult male property owners, the Haitian Revolution is of vital importance, the author argues, in thinking today about the urgent problems of social justice, human rights, imperialism, torture, and, above all, human freedom. He explores the invention of universal emancipation both in the context of the Age of Enlightenment (Spinoza, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel) and in relation to certain key figures (Ranciere, Laclau, Habermas) and trends (such as the turn to ethics, human rights, and universalism) in contemporary political philosophy.

Author : Elisabeth Paquette
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452963703
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Universal Emancipation written by Elisabeth Paquette and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital and timely contribution to the growing scholarship on the political thought of Alain Badiou Is inattention to questions of race more than just incidental to Alain Badiou’s philosophical system? Universal Emancipation reveals a crucial weakness in the approach to (in)difference in political life of this increasingly influential French thinker. With white nationalist movements on the rise, the tensions between commitments to universal principles and attention to difference and identity are even more pressing. Elisabeth Paquette’s powerful critical analysis demonstrates that Badiou’s theory of emancipation fails to account for racial and racialized subjects, thus attenuating its utility in thinking about freedom and justice. The crux of the argument relies on a distinction he makes between culture and politics, whereby freedom only pertains to the political and not the cultural. The implications of this distinction become evident when she turns to two examples within Badiou’s theory: the Négritude movement and the Haitian Revolution. According to Badiou’s 2017 book Black, while Négritude is an important cultural movement, it cannot be considered a political movement because Négritude writers and artists were too focused on particularities such as racial identity. Paquette argues that Badiou’s discussion of Négritude mirrors that of Jean-Paul Sartre in his 1948 essay “Black Orpheus” that has been critiqued by leading critical race theorists. Second, prominent Badiou scholar Nick Nesbitt claims that the Haitian Revolution could only be considered political if its adherents had shifted their focus away from race. However, Paquette argues that not only was race a central feature of this revolution but also that the revolution ought to be understood as a political emancipation movement. Paquette also moves beyond Badiou, drawing on the groundbreaking work of Sylvia Wynter to offer an alternative framework for emancipation. She juxtaposes Badiou’s use of universality as indifference to difference with Wynter’s pluri-conceptual theory of emancipation, emphasizing solidarity over indifference. Paquette then develops her view of a pluri-conceptual theory of emancipation, wherein particular identities, such as race, need not be subtracted from a theory of emancipation.

Author : Benjamin Lundy
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022510234
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Genius of Universal Emancipation written by Benjamin Lundy and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking monthly periodical advocating for the Universal Emancipation of all peoples. Edited by Benjamin Lundy, one of the most prominent abolitionists of his time, this journal contains original essays, documents, and facts related to the subject of African slavery. With its thorough and passionate coverage of the issue, The Genius of Universal Emancipation is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of abolitionism. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Total Pages : 222 pages
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Download or read book Genius of Universal Emancipation written by and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin Lundy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
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Download or read book Genius of Universal Emancipation written by Benjamin Lundy and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Buck-Morss
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973340
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History written by Susan Buck-Morss and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2009-02-22 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to free critical theoretical practice from the prison-house of its own debates. Historicizing the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the actions taken in the Haitian Revolution, Buck-Morss examines the startling connections between the two and challenges us to widen the boundaries of our historical imagination. She finds that it is in the discontinuities of historical flow, the edges of human experience, and the unexpected linkages between cultures that the possibility to transcend limits is discovered. It is these flashes of clarity that open the potential for understanding in spite of cultural differences. What Buck-Morss proposes amounts to a “new humanism,” one that goes beyond the usual ideological implications of such a phrase to embrace a radical neutrality that insists on the permeability of the space between opposing sides and as it reaches for a common humanity.

Author : Laurent Dubois
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807839027
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Colony of Citizens written by Laurent Dubois and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean. Dubois examines this Caribbean revolution by focusing on Guadeloupe, where, in the early 1790s, insurgents on the island fought for equality and freedom and formed alliances with besieged Republicans. In 1794, slavery was abolished throughout the French Empire, ushering in a new colonial order in which all people, regardless of race, were entitled to the same rights. But French administrators on the island combined emancipation with new forms of coercion and racial exclusion, even as newly freed slaves struggled for a fuller freedom. In 1802, the experiment in emancipation was reversed and slavery was brutally reestablished, though rebels in Saint-Domingue avoided the same fate by defeating the French and creating an independent Haiti. The political culture of republicanism, Dubois argues, was transformed through this transcultural and transatlantic struggle for liberty and citizenship. The slaves-turned-citizens of the French Caribbean expanded the political possibilities of the Enlightenment by giving new and radical content to the idea of universal rights.

Author : Benjamin Lundy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781375540780
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genius of Universal Emancipation written by Benjamin Lundy and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Genius of Universal Emancipation written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ira Berlin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674286081
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Download or read book The Long Emancipation written by Ira Berlin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ira Berlin offers a framework for understanding slavery’s demise in the United States. Emancipation was not an occasion but a century-long process of brutal struggle by generations of African Americans who were not naive about the price of freedom. Just as slavery was initiated and maintained by violence, undoing slavery also required violence.