Offers a new reading of humanity in decolonial theory
‘A rare combination of academic heft and impassioned prose.’ – Kirkus Reviews
- Articulates an original humanism informed by decolonial and post-colonial theory
- Advances an ethical theory across Black Studies, Caribbean philosophy, and Continental philosophy
- Defends the concepts of ‘the human’ and ‘humanity’
- Outlines a more constructive critical theory in our hyper-critical moment
Is there a way of being human that could invite people away from today’s models of violence and consumerism? Looking forward to a new, increasingly creolised century, in 1997 the Martinican poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant asked, ‘Do we have the right and the means to live another dimension of humanity? But how?’
Building on the defence of human rights he outlined in Choose Your Bearing, Benjamin P. Davis traces figures of ‘the human’ and ‘humanity’ in W. E. B. Du Bois, Édouard Glissant, Sylvia Wynter and Edward Said. He concludes with a reflection on Hannah Arendt’s post-war correspondence with Karl Ja
