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...Patrick Goodin Small Axe Incorporated 2002 BOOK DISCUSSION: CALIBAN’S REASON Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy, Paget Henry. New York: Routledge, 2000. ISBN 0415926459 Caliban’s Cry: Reflections on the Meaning of Philosophy in Caliban’s Reason Patrick...

...Claudette Anderson Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Caliban’s Reason and the Future of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy Claudette Anderson aget Henry, in his book Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy, has done an excellent job of excavating what he terms the “implicit...

...Paget Henry Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Culture, Politics and Writing in Afro- Caribbean Philosophy: A Reply to Critics Paget Henry must begin by thanking Brian Meeks, Maureen Warner-Lewis, Patrick Goodin, and Claudette Anderson for taking the time to put down so clearly...

...Franklyn Rodgers © Franklyn Rodgers 2011 The Philosophy of Strangers Franklyn Rodgers small axe 36 • November 2011 • DOI 10.1215/07990537-1443304 © Franklyn Rodgers 90  |  The Philosophy of Strangers Above: Loretta Rodgers...

...Terrence L. Johnson This discussion essay examines Lewis R. Gordon’s Fear of Black Consciousness (2022) and his analysis of ethics and politics within Black political philosophy. Gordon’s interdisciplinary book weaves together film, jazz, Judaism, and Egyptology (for instance) to interrogate...

... son itinéraire faisant œuvre de témoin agissant. Chantre éloquent de la diversité, du métissage, Glissant a élaboré un important chapitre de l'histoire contemporaine des idées. Il a posé les fondements d'une philosophie de la relation dans deux textes majeurs: Poétique de la Relation (1990) et Traité...

...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...

..., Chamoiseau and his fellow writers overhaul the form and stealthily undo assumptions about what the essay can or cannot accomplish. Through examples from Eloge de la créolité , by Chamoiseau, Jean Bernabé, and Raphaël Confiant; Edouard Glissant's Poétique de la Relation and Philosophie de la Relation...

...Fayçal Falaky This essay engages the broad question of the relation between the French Enlightenment and colonial racial slavery by exploring the literature of planters and slavetraders in the French Caribbean and showing how the ideals of French Enlightenment philosophy were not always framed...

...Michael Hanchard In addition to providing some conceptual and theoretical cues from fiction, literary and visual criticism, history, and philosophy that treat the subject of memory, this paper provides an outline of a critical method to distinguish among various deployments of black memory...

... aesthetic, and her ethical and ideological frameworks, assists in navigating the rich terrain of her work. The generic fusions that comprise Brodber's writing style demand a negotiation between philosophy and discourses of therapy and healing that her fiction must serve. Attending to these fusions one can...

...Donette Francis Jamaican fiction published in the 1960s was fundamentally pessimistic. These writings drew from regional ontologies of religious millenarianism, colonial abjection, and racial damnation, as well as of existentialist philosophies of Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, to offer...

.... It addresses Carnegie’s prescient interventions in relation to three canards of political philosophy—race-based notions of belonging, the centrality of secularism to modern notions of political community, and particular discourses of autonomy and self-determination. The author argues that what Carnegie shows...

... and political purchase on the epoch of postcolonial neoliberalism, this essay reflects on modes of archival attunement and Caribbean philosophies of history. 24 George Lamming, The Pleasures of Exile (1960; repr., Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992), 38. 25 Kamau Brathwaite, “Creative...

...Yohann C. Ripert This essay investigates a moment for Caribbean knowledge production in which intellectuals, gathered in Haiti in 1944 for an International Congress of Philosophy, questioned whether to politicize knowledge or to seclude it from politics. Focusing on Aimé Césaire’s “Poetry...

... previously charted: that of Afro-Caribbean philosophy. PHis central thesis is the confi rmation of the existence of an Afro-Caribbean philoso- phy, albeit a minor tradition, operating in the interstices of the more dominant forms of Caribbean intellectual production. He divides Afro-Caribbean philosophy...

... and loving together. Now, Nehamas's idea of an art of living is activated as part of an attempt to work out a contrast between two rival conceptions of philosophy: on the one hand, the dominant conception of academic philosophy, understood as a professional, theoretical, and systematic discipline...

... the character and project of Anglo-American philosophy against the liberal “self-image of our age,” whether represented in the neo-Kantian foundationalism of John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice , on the one hand, or the postmodern antifoundationalism of Richard Rorty’s Philosophy in the Mirror of Nature...