Universal Emancipation - The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment

Informationen zum Autor Nick Nesbitt is Senior Lecturer in French at the Center for Modern Thought at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He is the author of Voicing Memory: History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature (Virginia). Klappentext Unlike the American and French revolutions, the Haitian Revolution was the first in a modern state to implement human rights universally and unconditionally. Combining archival research, political philosophy, and intellectual history, Nesbitt explores this fundamental event of the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth century--the invention of universal emancipation--both in the context of the Age of Enlightenment and in relation to certain key figures and trends in contemporary political philosophy. In doing so, he elucidates the theoretical implications of Haiti's revolution for both the eighteenth and the twenty-first centuries. Zusammenfassung Combining research! political philosophy! and intellectual history! this book explores the invention of universal emancipation - both in the context of the Age of Enlightenment and in relation to certain key figures and trends in contemporary political philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Nick Nesbitt
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.06.2011
• EAN: 9780813928036
• ISBN: 978-0-8139-2803-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: New World Studies (Paperback); New World Studies; New World Studies; New World Studies (Paperback)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous