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The Racial Discourses Of Life Philosophy

Negritude, Vitalism, And Modernity

by Donna (Assistant Professor, University Of California At Berkeley) Jones
language: english
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, December of 2011 ‧
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Donna V. Jones shows how Henri Bergson, Friedrich Nietzsche, and the poets Leopold Senghor and Aime Cesaire fashioned the concept of life into a central aesthetic and metaphysical category, while also implicating it in discourses on race and nation. Jones argues that twentieth-century vitalism cannot be understood separately from these racial and anti-Semitic discussions. She also illustrates how some dominant models of emancipation within black thought become intelligible only when in dialogue with the vitalist tradition. Jones's study strikes at the core of contemporary critical theory, integrating these older discourses into larger critical frameworks, and she traces the ways in which vitalism continues to draw from and contribute to its making.

The Racial Discourses Of Life Philosophy

Negritude, Vitalism, And Modernity

by Donna (Assistant Professor, University Of California At Berkeley) Jones

Property Description
ISBN: 9780231145497
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: December of 2011
Language: English
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 240
Format: Book
Collection: New Directions In Critical Theory
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > History of Literature
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780231145497