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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
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
