Universal Emancipation: Race Beyond Badiou
A vital and timely contribution to the growing scholarship on the political thought of Alain Badiou Is inattention to questions of race more than just incidental to Alain Badiou&;s philosophical system? Universal Emancipation reveals a crucial weakness in the approach to (in)difference in political life of this increasingly influential French thinker. With white nationalist movements on the rise, the tensions between commitments to universal principles and attention to difference and identity are even more pressing. Elisabeth Paquette&;s powerful critical analysis demonstrates that Badiou&;s theory of emancipation fails to account for racial and racialized subjects, thus attenuating its utility in thinking about freedom and justice. The crux of the argument relies on a distinction he makes between culture and politics, whereby freedom only pertains to the political and not the cultural. The implications of this distinction become evident when she turns to two examples within Badiou&;s theory: the Négritude movement and the Haitian Revolution. According to Badiou&;s 2017 book Black, while Négritude is an important cultural movement, it cannot be considered a political movement because Négritude writers and artists were too focused on particularities such as racial identity. Paquette argues that Badiou&;s discussion of Négritude mirrors that of Jean-Paul Sartre in his 1948 essay &;Black Orpheus&; that has been critiqued by leading critical race theorists. Second, prominent Badiou scholar Nick Nesbitt claims that the Haitian Revolution could only be considered political if its adherents had shifted their focus away from race. However, Paquette argues that not only was race a central feature of this revolution but also that the revolution ought to be understood as a political emancipation movement. Paquette also moves beyond Badiou, drawing on the groundbreaking work of Sylvia Wynter to offer an alternative framework for emancipation. She juxtaposes Badiou&;s use of universality as indifference to difference with Wynter&;s pluri-conceptual theory of emancipation, emphasizing solidarity over indifference. Paquette then develops her view of a pluri-conceptual theory of emancipation, wherein particular identities, such as race, need not be subtracted from a theory of emancipation.
yazar | Elisabeth Paquette |
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Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 13.97 x 1.22 x 21.59 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı | 27 Ekim 2020 |
WADE H MCCREE 3 Ocak 2017 ROBERT H BORK 28 Şubat 2018 Mdpi AG 18,9 x 0,2 x 24,6 cm Additional Contributors 18,9 x 0,4 x 24,6 cm 1 Ocak 2017 30 Ekim 2011 ERWIN N GRISWOLD Kolektif 18,9 x 0,3 x 24,6 cm 18,9 x 0,6 x 24,6 cm 29 Ekim 2011 15 x 0,5 x 22 cm 18,9 x 0,5 x 24,6 cm 28 Ekim 2011
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yazar | Elisabeth Paquette |
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isbn 13 | 978-1517909444 |
Yayımcı | University of Minnesota Press |
Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 13.97 x 1.22 x 21.59 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı Universal Emancipation: Race Beyond Badiou | 27 Ekim 2020 |
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