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Zusatztext To divide the thought of Edouard Glissant into an early period of Caribbean radical politics on the one hand and a mature phase advancing a depolitized cosmopolitan life of the mind on the other distorts Glissant’s legacy. Sam Coombes rescues Glissant from facile naysayers upholding this misrepresentation. He does so through examination of the late Glissant on creolization, immigration, neoliberal political economy, negotiations of universalism and particularism, and visions of human existence that acknowledge nation-state politics while also providing alternative futures for everyday people to resist enslaving dynamics of globalization. A single word captures that project’s implication: freedom. Informationen zum Autor Sam Coombes is Senior Lecturer and member of the Department of European Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Klappentext Édouard Glissant was a leading voice in debates centering on the postcolonial condition and on the present and future of globalisation. Prolific as both a theorist and a literary author, Glissant started his career as a contemporary of Frantz Fanon in the early days of francophone postcolonial thought. In the latter part of his career Glissant's vision pushed beyond the boundaries of postcolonialism to encompass the contemporary phenomenon of globalisation. Sam Coombes offers a detailed analysis of Glissant's thought, setting out the reasons why Glissant's vision for a world of intercultural interaction both reflects but also seeks to provide a correction to some of the leading tendencies commonly associated with contemporary theory today. Vorwort An introducton to the thought of Martinican philosopher and novelist Edouard Glissant. The book offers both an exposition and analysis of his central preoccupations and philosophical concerns. Zusammenfassung Édouard Glissant was a leading voice in debates centering on the postcolonial condition and on the present and future of globalisation. Prolific as both a theorist and a literary author, Glissant started his career as a contemporary of Frantz Fanon in the early days of francophone postcolonial thought. In the latter part of his career Glissant’s vision pushed beyond the boundaries of postcolonialism to encompass the contemporary phenomenon of globalisation.Sam Coombes offers a detailed analysis of Glissant’s thought, setting out the reasons why Glissant’s vision for a world of intercultural interaction both reflects but also seeks to provide a correction to some of the leading tendencies commonly associated with contemporary theory today. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTIONPART ONE: Later Glissantian Thought as Alternative Perspective on Globalisation Chapter 1. Poetics of Relation (1990): a Manifesto for the 21st Century?Chapter 2. From Relation to the ‘common-place’: the Later Glissantian Conceptual SchemaPART TWO: Creolisation, Anti-Universalism and Twenty-First Century Radical ThoughtChapter 3. Creolisation and Creoleness: Proximity and DivergenceChapter 4. The Paradoxes of Universalism and the Ambivalence of the Postcolonial conditionChapter 5. Glissant: Postmodernist Apologist for Neoliberal-led Globalization?Chapter 6. Glissant’s latter-day Political CommitmentsPART THREE: Envisioning the Twenty-First Century Otherwise: Utopianism, Anarchism and the Critique of NeoliberalismChapter 7. Globalization and Its Critics: Neoliberalism, Alter-Globalization and Contemporary AnarchismChapter 8. A Poetics of Resistance and Change: Glissant, a Maître à penser for 21st Century Dissident Thought?BIBLIOGRAPHY...
