Creolizing Practices of Freedom
Recognition and Dissonance
1st Edition
Published on 28. November 2022
206 pages
978-1-5381-7462-3 (ISBN)
Description
Creolizing Practices of Freedom argues that many of our long-standing debates over the concept of freedom have been bound up in the politics of purity-explicitly or implicitly insisting on clear and distinct boundaries between self and other or between choice and coercion. In this model, freedom becomes a matter of purifying the self at the individual level and the body politic at the larger social level. The appropriate response to this is a creolizing theory of freedom, an approach that sees indeterminacy and ambiguity not as tragic flaws, but as crucial productive elements of the practice of freedom.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-5381-7462-3 (9781538174623)
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11/2022
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Person
Michael J. Monahan is associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee. His teaching and research focus on political philosophy, philosophy of race and racism, Africana philosophy, phenomenology, and Hegel. He is the editor of Creolizing Hegel (2017) and The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity (2011).
Content
- Intro
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Being, Belonging, and Freedom
- Chapter 1: Freedom and the Politics of Purity
- Chapter 2: Recognition and Its Discontents
- Chapter 3: Recognition, Cognition, and Purity
- Chapter 4: Toward a Creolizing Freedom
- Chapter 5: The (We-)Subject of Liberation
- Chapter 6: On Human Liberation
- Coda: An Opening and an Invitation to a Living Practice of Freedom
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author
