The Creolization of Political Theory and the Dialectic of Emancipatory Thought: A Plea for Synthesis
The paper discusses Jane-Anna Gordon's important idea of the Creolization of Poitical Theory with reference to the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Frantz Fanon. It makes an argument for synthesizing this initiative with dialectical thought in order to transcend the analytical vision which gav...
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| description | The paper discusses Jane-Anna Gordon's important idea of the Creolization of Poitical Theory with reference to the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Frantz Fanon. It makes an argument for synthesizing this initiative with dialectical thought in order to transcend the analytical vision which gave birth to the creolizing of theory. This synthesis is proposed in order to make sense of the real of any politics of universal emancipation and to incorporate the theoretical inventions of popular actions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2b29d88c62dc49b48e8fd36af41f85492022-12-22T04:36:02ZengUniversity Library System, University of PittsburghJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy2155-11622017-12-0125262510.5195/jffp.2017.821649The Creolization of Political Theory and the Dialectic of Emancipatory Thought: A Plea for SynthesisMichael Neocosmos0Rhodes University, South AfricaThe paper discusses Jane-Anna Gordon's important idea of the Creolization of Poitical Theory with reference to the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Frantz Fanon. It makes an argument for synthesizing this initiative with dialectical thought in order to transcend the analytical vision which gave birth to the creolizing of theory. This synthesis is proposed in order to make sense of the real of any politics of universal emancipation and to incorporate the theoretical inventions of popular actions.http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/821creolizationemancipatory politicspolitical theory |
| spellingShingle | Michael Neocosmos The Creolization of Political Theory and the Dialectic of Emancipatory Thought: A Plea for Synthesis Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy creolization emancipatory politics political theory |
| title | The Creolization of Political Theory and the Dialectic of Emancipatory Thought: A Plea for Synthesis |
| title_full | The Creolization of Political Theory and the Dialectic of Emancipatory Thought: A Plea for Synthesis |
| title_fullStr | The Creolization of Political Theory and the Dialectic of Emancipatory Thought: A Plea for Synthesis |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Creolization of Political Theory and the Dialectic of Emancipatory Thought: A Plea for Synthesis |
| title_short | The Creolization of Political Theory and the Dialectic of Emancipatory Thought: A Plea for Synthesis |
| title_sort | creolization of political theory and the dialectic of emancipatory thought a plea for synthesis |
| topic | creolization emancipatory politics political theory |
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