'So Much the Worse for the Whites': Dialectics of the Haitian Revolution
This article sets out from an analysis of the pioneering work of Susan Buck-Morss to rethink, not only Hegel and Haiti, but broader questions surrounding dialectics and the universal brought to light by the Haitian Revolution. Reading through the lens of C.L.R. James’ The Black Jacobins, I seek to c...
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| description | This article sets out from an analysis of the pioneering work of Susan Buck-Morss to rethink, not only Hegel and Haiti, but broader questions surrounding dialectics and the universal brought to light by the Haitian Revolution. Reading through the lens of C.L.R. James’ The Black Jacobins, I seek to correct a series of ironic silences in her account, re-centering the importance of Toussaint’s successor, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and underlining the dialectical importance of identitarian struggles in forging the universal. Finally, I offer Frantz Fanon’s reformulation of the Hegelian master-slave dialectic—overlooked in Buck-Morss’ account—as a corrective that allows us to truly rethink progress toward the universal in decolonized dialectical terms. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-725fcd0d32084456b3b1a6b6933aa28e2022-12-22T04:36:02ZengUniversity Library System, University of PittsburghJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy2155-11622014-09-01221193910.5195/jffp.2014.641551'So Much the Worse for the Whites': Dialectics of the Haitian RevolutionGeorge Ciccariello-Maher0Drexel UniversityThis article sets out from an analysis of the pioneering work of Susan Buck-Morss to rethink, not only Hegel and Haiti, but broader questions surrounding dialectics and the universal brought to light by the Haitian Revolution. Reading through the lens of C.L.R. James’ The Black Jacobins, I seek to correct a series of ironic silences in her account, re-centering the importance of Toussaint’s successor, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and underlining the dialectical importance of identitarian struggles in forging the universal. Finally, I offer Frantz Fanon’s reformulation of the Hegelian master-slave dialectic—overlooked in Buck-Morss’ account—as a corrective that allows us to truly rethink progress toward the universal in decolonized dialectical terms.http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/641haitian revolutionhegelfanondialecticsdecolonization |
| spellingShingle | George Ciccariello-Maher 'So Much the Worse for the Whites': Dialectics of the Haitian Revolution Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy haitian revolution hegel fanon dialectics decolonization |
| title | 'So Much the Worse for the Whites': Dialectics of the Haitian Revolution |
| title_full | 'So Much the Worse for the Whites': Dialectics of the Haitian Revolution |
| title_fullStr | 'So Much the Worse for the Whites': Dialectics of the Haitian Revolution |
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| title_short | 'So Much the Worse for the Whites': Dialectics of the Haitian Revolution |
| title_sort | so much the worse for the whites dialectics of the haitian revolution |
| topic | haitian revolution hegel fanon dialectics decolonization |
| url | http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/641 |
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