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...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...

...Sibylle Fischer Can we coherently conjugate high philosophy and slave insurgency under the heading of “universal history”? Is it possible to disentangle “universal history” from its roots in white supremacy and European imperial reason? Susan Buck-Morss' recent answer to that question, which...

...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...

..., Enlightenment, and Universal History,” Small Axe , no. 33 (November 2010): 152–62. See also Buck-Morss’s response in “The Gift of the Past,” Small Axe , no. 33 (November 2010): 173–85. 10 See the stimulating volume edited by Tim Barringer and Wayne Modest, Victorian Jamaica (Durham, NC: Duke...

... the limits of the continent. Universal history in this sense does not claim to insert Africa in a common space with Europe and its history; nor does it posit that several universalities coexist. To paraphrase Susan Buck-Morss, universal history is a method that transcends nationalist histories in which...

... 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...

... 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...

... Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Contributors Susan Buck-Morss is Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 Professor of Government, Cornell University, Ithaca. She is a member of the graduate fields of comparative literature, German studies, and the history of art and visual studies, and teaches in the School of Art...

... and trivialization of “counterevidence” that occurs when the “separate aspects of history are treated in disciplinary isolation” and knowledge is increasingly specialized, Susan Buck-Morss warns us about the ease with which discordant ways of knowing are ignored.14 She asks, pointedly, “What...

..., 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...

... the Revolution: Waking to Global Capitalism (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Wesleyan University, 1994). 3 Henri Giroux, “The Terror of Neoliberalism: Rethinking the Significance of Cultural Politics,” College Literature 32, no. 1 (Winter 2005): 10, 12; Giroux cites Susan Buck-Morss...

...,” Research in African Literatures 35, no. 2 (Summer 2004), special issue: “Haiti, 1804–2004: Literature, Culture, and Art,” 2–17. Both Susan Buck-Morss and Nick Nesbitt, in a similar vein, have recently explored the philosophical impact of the Haitian Revolution...

...: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008); and Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009). 2 Sibylle Fischer, Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery...

...,” to be encompassed by either European or American Enlightenments. For example, see Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009); Sibylle Fischer, Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cul- tures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution...

... and Double-Consciousness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993); Sybille Fischer, Modernity Disavowed (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004); and Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009). 27 J. Michael...

... Trouillot, Global Transformations , 12 (emphasis in original). See also Trouillot, Silencing the Past . 18 Wolf, Europe and the People without History . 19 See, for example, Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009); Emmanuel...

..., 1990); and, on the other, Susan Buck-Morss, “Hegel and Haiti,” Critical Inquiry 26, no. 4 (2000): 821–65; Hesse, Creolizing the Political ; Angela Y. Davis, “Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition,” in Joy James, ed., The Angela Y. Davis Reader (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998), 96–107; and Brady...