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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
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Firmin, Global History, and the End of RaceCelucien 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 Meï
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 Anténor Firmin and the Legacy of the 19th Century Gudrun Rath
4
The Sense of Place in Firmin's Monsieur Roosevelt, Président des États-Unis et de la République d'HaïtiGeorges Eddy Lucien
Translated by Nathan H. Dize and Siobhan Meï
5 Forms of Firminism:
Understanding Joseph Anténor Firmin Celucien L. Joseph
Part II
Firmin, Black Internationalism, and Pan-Africanism
6 Anténor Firmin, Pan-Africanism, and the Struggle for Race VindicationGershom Williams
7 Lions and Sheep: Anténor Firmin, Pan-Africanism, and the Rebirth of
Malcolm-X
Tammie Jenkins
8
At the Center of World History, Before Diop, there was Firmin: GreatScholars 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 EvolutionMatthew Carson Allen
10 Reconstructing the Universality of the Social Sciences and Humanities: Anténor
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 Anténor FirminGreg Beckett
Über den Autor / die Autorin
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.
Zusammenfassung
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.
