Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities
Antenor Firmin, Western Intellectual Tradition, and Black Atlantic Tradition
1st Edition
Published on 6. May 2021
254 pages
978-1-000-37958-7 (ISBN)
Description
Joseph Antenor Firmin (1850-1911) was the reigning public intellectual and political critic in Haiti in the nineteenth century. He was the first "Black anthropologist" and "Black Egyptologist" to deconstruct the Western interpretation of global history and challenge the ideological construction of human nature and theories of knowledge in the Western social sciences and the humanities. As an anti-racist intellectual and cosmopolitan thinker, Firmin's writings challenge Western ideas of the colonial subject, race achievement, and modernity's imagination of a linear narrative based on the false premises of social evolution and development, colonial history and epistemology, and the intellectual evolution of the Aryan-White race. Firmin articulated an alternative way to study global historical trajectories, the political life, human societies and interactions, and the diplomatic relations and dynamics between the nations and the races.
Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities is the first full-length book devoted to Joseph Antenor Firmin. It reexamines the importance of his thought and legacy, and its relevance for the twenty-first century's culture of humanism, and the continuing challenge of race and racism.
Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities is the first full-length book devoted to Joseph Antenor Firmin. It reexamines the importance of his thought and legacy, and its relevance for the twenty-first century's culture of humanism, and the continuing challenge of race and racism.
Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
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1 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
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978-1-000-37958-7 (9781000379587)
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Antenor Firmin, Western Intellectual Tradition, and Black Atlantic Tradition
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1st Edition
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Persons
Celucien L. Joseph is an intellectual historian, literary scholar, and theologian. He is an associate professor of English at Indian River State College. He holds a PhD in Literary Studies from the University of Texas at Dallas and a PhD in Theology and Ethics from the University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa). He is the author of numerous academic books and peer-reviewed articles. His recent books include Revolutionary Change and Democratic Religion: Christianity, Vodou, and Secularism (2020), a 2020 "Important Political Book-PoliticoTech Awards Finalist," and Theologizing in Black: On Africana Theological Ethics and Anthropology (2020). His books From Toussaint to Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought (2013), and Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions: Discourse on Race, Religion, and Freedom (2013) received Honorable Mention at The Pan African International 2014 Book Awards.
Paul C. Mocombe (PhD) is a Haitian philosopher and sociologist. He is a former visiting professor of Philosophy and Sociology at Bethune Cookman University, an assistant professor of Philosophy and Sociology at West Virginia State University, and the president/CEO of The Mocombeian Foundation, Inc. He is the author of many influential books, such as The Theory of Phenomenological Structuralism; Haitian Epistemology; and Identity and Ideology in Haiti.
Paul C. Mocombe (PhD) is a Haitian philosopher and sociologist. He is a former visiting professor of Philosophy and Sociology at Bethune Cookman University, an assistant professor of Philosophy and Sociology at West Virginia State University, and the president/CEO of The Mocombeian Foundation, Inc. He is the author of many influential books, such as The Theory of Phenomenological Structuralism; Haitian Epistemology; and Identity and Ideology in Haiti.
Content
Introduction: Firmin, Global History, and the End of Race
Celucien L. Joseph
Part I
Firmin, Haitian History, and Caribbean Intellectual Heritage
1 Race and Modernity in the Caribbean Discourse
Glodel Mezilas
Translated by Nathan H. Dize and Siobhan Mei
2 "Tous les hommes sont l'homme" : Antenor Firmin, Toussaint Louverture,
Racial Equality and the Fact of Blackness
Paul B. Miller
3 Reinventing Europe: Joseph Antenor Firmin and the Legacy of the 19th Century
Gudrun Rath
4 The Sense of Place in Firmin's Monsieur Roosevelt, President des Etats-Unis et de la Republique d'Haiti
Georges Eddy Lucien
Translated by Nathan H. Dize and Siobhan Mei
5 Forms of Firminism: Understanding Joseph Antenor Firmin
Celucien L. Joseph
Part II
Firmin, Black Internationalism, and Pan-Africanism
6 Antenor Firmin, Pan-Africanism, and the Struggle for Race Vindication
Gershom Williams
7 Lions and Sheep: Antenor Firmin, Pan-Africanism, and the Rebirth of
Malcolm-X
Tammie Jenkins
8 At the Center of World History, Before Diop, there was Firmin: Great
Scholars on the Black African Origin of the Ancient Egyptians and their
Civilization
Patrick Delices
Part III
Firmin, Universalism, and Western Intellectual History
9 Firmin and the Laws of Multilineal Evolution
Matthew Carson Allen
10 Reconstructing the Universality of the Social Sciences and Humanities: Antenor
Firmin and Black (Haitian) Atlantic Thought and Culture
Paul C. Mocombe
11 The Abolition of All Privilege: Race, Equality, and Freedom in the Work of Antenor Firmin
Greg Beckett
Celucien L. Joseph
Part I
Firmin, Haitian History, and Caribbean Intellectual Heritage
1 Race and Modernity in the Caribbean Discourse
Glodel Mezilas
Translated by Nathan H. Dize and Siobhan Mei
2 "Tous les hommes sont l'homme" : Antenor Firmin, Toussaint Louverture,
Racial Equality and the Fact of Blackness
Paul B. Miller
3 Reinventing Europe: Joseph Antenor Firmin and the Legacy of the 19th Century
Gudrun Rath
4 The Sense of Place in Firmin's Monsieur Roosevelt, President des Etats-Unis et de la Republique d'Haiti
Georges Eddy Lucien
Translated by Nathan H. Dize and Siobhan Mei
5 Forms of Firminism: Understanding Joseph Antenor Firmin
Celucien L. Joseph
Part II
Firmin, Black Internationalism, and Pan-Africanism
6 Antenor Firmin, Pan-Africanism, and the Struggle for Race Vindication
Gershom Williams
7 Lions and Sheep: Antenor Firmin, Pan-Africanism, and the Rebirth of
Malcolm-X
Tammie Jenkins
8 At the Center of World History, Before Diop, there was Firmin: Great
Scholars on the Black African Origin of the Ancient Egyptians and their
Civilization
Patrick Delices
Part III
Firmin, Universalism, and Western Intellectual History
9 Firmin and the Laws of Multilineal Evolution
Matthew Carson Allen
10 Reconstructing the Universality of the Social Sciences and Humanities: Antenor
Firmin and Black (Haitian) Atlantic Thought and Culture
Paul C. Mocombe
11 The Abolition of All Privilege: Race, Equality, and Freedom in the Work of Antenor Firmin
Greg Beckett
