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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 35–51.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Revolution as a question of “universal history.” My aim here has not been to set down exhaustively (even nearly so) the whole dramatic labor of C. L. R. James's exercise in writing the Haitian Revolution as universal history in The Black Jacobins . What I want us to principally see in my...
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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)): 163–172.
Published: 01 November 2010
...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...
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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 (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 166–181.
Published: 01 November 2013
...—a history best seen from the experience of Caribbean societies and peoples. Third, that anthropology has the capacity to provide us with the necessary moral optimism to rethink the relation between plurality and universalism that grounds the human condition, but to do so we must first rescue the concepts...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 193–202.
Published: 01 November 2013
... standards of presumably universal human relevance. Trouillot's important intervention in Western conceptions of history and historiography in Silencing the Past notwithstanding, the essay argues that the distinction he draws between “historicity 1” and “historicity 2” betrays his struggle with the continued...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 186–197.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Eddie Chambers In considering Kobena Mercer's four-volume edited series Annotating Art's Histories (2004–8), Eddie Chambers sets out to critique the often unspoken but nevertheless hegemonic and complicated racial hierarchies that exist across many of the country's universities, with particular...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 195–205.
Published: 01 November 2020
...,” Journal of African American History 92, no. 4 (2007): 516–39; “Liberation from Below: The Caribbean Conference Committee and the Global New Left” (master’s thesis, University of Montreal, 2007); “In Search of a National Identity: C. L. R. James and the Promise of the Caribbean,” in James, You Don’t Play...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 228–238.
Published: 01 November 2020
... as a manifestation of the black radical tradition and a critical involvement with socialism. Drawing on C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, it argues that black freedom struggles in the Americas and Europe, including slave revolts, have been an essential part of the history of labor and freedom struggles. It also...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 106–114.
Published: 01 July 2016
... a multilayered international network in the region to overcome divisions and boundaries produced by the history of neo/colonialism and the cold war. Over the past sixteen years, the journal work has generated an archive of knowledge, a society, and a consortium of institutions to organize a biennial conference...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): vii–xiv.
Published: 01 March 2019
... 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 here is the explicit direction of Wright’s theory-preoccupation— what is at stake is Badiou...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2019
... through the story form of universal history—the arc of a “romantic” story—in The Black Jacobins casts the revolution within a narrative of the “progressive realization of universal spirit.” 14 For Scott, James casts Touissaint Louverture as the “world-historical individual” who possessed the capacity...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 186–188.
Published: 01 November 2010
... 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...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2019
... of the movement have already provided in-depth critiques of Sartre’s essay, a consideration of how it positions Negritude in relation to Marxist concepts of universal history will be necessary, given the degree to which it frames critical approaches to the work of Césaire and Senghor. Sartre argues that Negritude...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 18–38.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012). 98 See Jennifer Law, “Knowledge Is Made for Printing: Joscelyn Gardner’s Creole Portrait Series,” in Gardner, Bleeding and Breeding , 13–14. 97 See...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2012
...: Indiana University Press, 2002),
207–20; and Sibylle Fischer, Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (Durham, NC:
Duke University Press, 2004), 242–44.
3 See Michel-Rolph Trouillot, “An Unthinkable History,” in Silencing the Past: Power...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 61–68.
Published: 01 March 2020
... in the French Caribbean, 1787–1804 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004); Nick Nesbitt, Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008); and Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Pittsburgh...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 167–177.
Published: 01 November 2019
... or the historical development of liberalism, the reexamination of liberal imperialism interrupted Whig histories of humanitarianism and illustrated the fragility of moral universalism at a moment when these ideologies were once again mobilized in service of a new imperialism. Yet in focusing on depictions...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 67–77.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., our criticism can no longer take for granted the existence of the Caribbean as a habitable geography. While Dipesh Chakrabarty regards this as an occasion to collapse an artificial distinction between human and natural history in service of a “new universal history of humans that flashes up...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 47–61.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Slavery and Modern Ideology , ed. Brent D. Shaw (Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 1998). Finley insightfully notes, “In the context of universal history, free labour, wage labour, not slavery is the peculiar institution. For most of the millennia of human history in most parts of the world, labour power...
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