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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 163–172.
Published: 01 November 2010
... was left somewhat unresolved in her seminal essay “Hegel and Haiti,” turns the Haitian Revolution and its half suppressed echo in Hegel's master-slave dialectic into an emblematic event. Universal ideas of liberty and liberation can only be glimpsed in singular moments of rupture, systemic break-down...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 152–162.
Published: 01 November 2010
...David Scott This essay critically engages aspects of Susan Buck-Morss' much acclaimed Hegel, Haiti and Universal History . While appreciating Buck-Morss' scepticism of Europe's presumption of authoritative self-knowledge, the essay raises two principal doubts: the first concerns whether indeed...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 173–185.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Susan Buck-Morss Responding to commentaries on Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History by Sibylle Fischer and David Scott, this essay describes universal history as “theoretical pragmatics,” a practice of theorizing that undermines established narratives. Focusing on the singularity of historical...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 35–51.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of books that have accepted this invitation to universal history. 19 As I have said elsewhere, in my response to Susan Buck-Morss's provocation in Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History , it is very puzzling to me that The Black Jacobins , though admiringly mentioned in such discussions as hers, is taken...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 98–111.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., the trade continued
illegally afterward.
Equiano’s Narrative affirmed the dialectic of slavery and freedom that structured Enlight-
enment thinking, from Locke and Rousseau to Kant and Hegel, at the center of modern liberal-
ism in an era of revolutions. In The Social Contract (1762), for example...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 57–85.
Published: 01 September 2005
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on nineteenth-century thinkers, particularly on Hegel and his refl ections on the master-slave dialectic in the
Philosophy of Right. Buck-Morss, “Hegel and Haiti,” Critical Inquiryy 26, no. 4 (2000): 821–65; and Nesbitt,
“Troping Toussaint, Reading Revolution,” Research in African...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 190–200.
Published: 01 July 2024
... in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, characterized by the “move away from the first-person perspective,” as “what is self-moving,” as a “logic of actualization,” and, ultimately, as “the rationality of matters themselves.” Rocío Zambrana, “Subjectivity in Hegel’s Logic,” in Dean Moyar, ed., The Oxford...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 163–175.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Neyra’s remarkable reading of Pedro Pietri’s The Masses Are Asses alongside the texts of, among others, Judith Butler, G. W. F. Hegel, and Hortense Spillers. I would have liked to follow closely the movement of Ellis Neyra’s thinking as they show how Pietri’s play could be read as an allegory...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 16–23.
Published: 01 September 2005
... universal-
ism than there could be Haitian universalism. Susan Buck-Morss, in her article “Hegel
and Haiti,” picks up where James left off by asserting that
Th e black Jacobins of Saint Domingue surpassed the metropole in actively realizing the Enlight-
enment goal of human...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): vii–xiv.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of Hegel by way of the Haitian Revolution” (227). Now, to my mind, this is a very doubtful inspiration. I have written elsewhere that the assumptions that shape Buck-Morss’s Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History are unpersuasive, to say the least. 9 But more importantly, perhaps, what is to be noted...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 116–139.
Published: 01 March 2003
... division of labor⁴
requisite for the discursive construction of a black world. Major European thinkers such
as Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and their disciples, collectively expressed, infl uenced, and
reinforced the exclusionary, masculinist ethos by which the gender analyses of Carib-
bean male...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 194–196.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., decolonial, and abolitionist theory, combines more traditional ethnographic methods with photography and collaging. R ocío Z ambrana ’ s work explores decolonial thought and praxis in the Caribbean, specifically attending to the operation of capitalism in the region. She is the author of Hegel’s...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 186–188.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., Architecture, and
Planning. Her books include Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (2009), Thinking Past Terror:
Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (2003), Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing
of Mass Utopia in East and West (2000), The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the
Arcades...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 129–145.
Published: 01 March 2016
... a cousin of the pathology of the colonizer and the bourgeoisie (407). The behavior of Pease and Reynolds is an illustration of their desire for racial mastery that demands recognition from blacks, recalling G. W. F. Hegel's ideas about lordship and bondage but only if threaded through a Fanonian gaze...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., and Western political and philosophi-
cal modernity. In her influential 2000 essay “Hegel and Haiti,” Susan Buck-Morss famously
contends that the Haitian Revolution was “the crucible, the trial by fire for the ideals of the
French Enlightenment,” news of which inspired Hegel to theorize his...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 232–234.
Published: 01 July 2024
... modernity and its racial/gender order, specifically in the context of financial capitalism in the Caribbean. She is the author of Hegel’s Theory of Intelligibility (2015) and Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (2021), translated by Roque Salas Rivera as Deudas coloniales: El caso de Puerto Rico...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 254–262.
Published: 01 November 2023
... with. Hegel had never been to Africa when he went off on “the African character” in his 1831 Philosophy of History and concluded that, yes, slavery is bad: “For the essence of humanity is Freedom ; but for that man must be matured. The gradual abolition of slavery is therefore wiser and more equitable than...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 228–238.
Published: 01 November 2020
... attitude among some within the black radical tradition toward socialism. From King’s own account, his study of G. W. F. Hegel’s “dialectical process” in The Phenomenology of Mind, Philosophy of Right , and Philosophy of History helped him “to see growth comes through struggle.” 33 He was critical...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 117–146.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to Ferreira da Silva. This in turn has compromised the claims that Marxism, and specifically Marx’s Capital , represents a universal explication of capitalist production. Central to Unpayable Debt is a critique of G. W. F. Hegel’s “transcendental I,” the immanent self-movement of consciousness, or what...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 18–34.
Published: 01 July 2018
... of ownership.” From his insight about a history “ before the class struggle,” Cabral insisted that history would continue “ after the class struggle.” 51 This departure from Marx’s historical materialism, which turned Hegel on his head but nonetheless remained Hegelian, thus eschewed the political faith...
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