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Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Pitt Illuminations)
Susan Buck-Morss
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Paperback. Historicizing the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the actions taken in the Haitian Revolution, this work examines the startling connections between the two and challenges us to widen the boundaries of our historical imagination. Series: Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas. Num Pages: 160 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 191 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to free critical theoretical practice from the prison-house of its own debates.
Historicizing the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the actions taken in the Haitian Revolution, Buck-Morss examines the startling connections between the two and challenges us to widen the boundaries of our historical imagination. She finds that it is in the discontinuities of historical flow, the edges of human ... Read more
In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to free critical theoretical practice from the prison-house of its own debates.
Historicizing the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the actions taken in the Haitian Revolution, Buck-Morss examines the startling connections between the two and challenges us to widen the boundaries of our historical imagination. She finds that it is in the discontinuities of historical flow, the edges of human ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Series
Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822959786
SKU
V9780822959786
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About Susan Buck-Morss
Susan Buck-Morss is Jan Rock Zubrow Ô77 Chair of Social Sciences, and professor of political philosophy and social theory in the department of government at Cornell University. She is the author of Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the
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