Creolizing Critical Theory: New Voices in Caribbean Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield), edited by Benjamin P. Davis and Kris F. Sealey, with an afterword by Deborah A. Thomas, was published in January 2024. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.]
Robin Celikates (University of Amsterdam; professor of philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin) describes the volume: “Critical theory is in constant need of self-transformation in light of the crises and struggles of its age, an age that is defined by the historical entwinement of capitalism and colonialism and its afterlives. Against this background, Creolizing Critical Theory offers a highly topical invitation to think with the Caribbean, with Caribbean thought as critical theory. Its chapters weave a rich and complex tapestry, containing a multitude of greatly relevant insights for all those who share critical theory’s ambition to address the deep crises of our present and to open up new ways of imagining the future.”
Description: Creolizing Critical Theory highlights the Caribbean as a philosophical site from which, for centuries and until today, theorists have articulated pressing critiques of capitalism and colonialism. Some of these critiques, such as those of the Saramaka Maroons, have stressed the value of autonomy. Others, such as those of the West Indies Federation, have emphasized solidarity in the face of European occupation. Critical Theory, as an emancipatory project rooted in the values of autonomy, solidarity, and equality, then, has long been a Caribbean practice. Drawing on a range of voices, Creolizing Critical Theory centers Caribbean critiques with a view toward praxis in the present.
Benjamin P. Davis is a postdoctoral fellow at Saint Louis University. He is the author of Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics and Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins.
Kris F. Sealey is professor of philosophy at Penn State University. She is the author of Creolizing the Nation and Moments of Disruption: Levinas, Sartre, and the Question of Transcendence.
Creolizing Critical Theory: New Voices in Caribbean Philosophy
Kris F. Sealey and Benjamin P. Davis (editors)
Rowman & Littlefield, 2024
280 pages
ISBN 978-1538187999 (hc)
For more information, see https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538187999/Creolizing-Critical-Theory-New-Voices-in-Caribbean-Philosophy
Creolizing Critical Theory: New Voices in Caribbean Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield), edited by Benjamin P. Davis and Kris F. Sealey, with an afterword by Deborah A. Thomas, was published in January 2024. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Robin Celikates (University of Amsterdam; professor of philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin) describes
