Caliban's reason : introducing Afro-Caribbean philosophy /

Caliban's reason : introducing Afro-Caribbean philosophy /

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Author / Creator:	Henry, Paget.
Imprint:	New York : Routledge, ©2000.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Africana thought Africana thought.
Subject:	Philosophy, Black -- West Indies. Philosophy, Black. West Indies. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11115920

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ISBN:	0203900103 9780203900109 9780415926454 0415926459 9780415926461 0415926467 9781280406980 1280406984 0415926459 0415926467 9786610406982 6610406987 1135958815 9781135958817
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-293) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Annotation "Caliban's Reason" introduces the general reader to Afro-Caribbean philosophy. In this ground-breaking work, Paget Henry traces the roots of this discourse in traditional African thought and in the Christian and Enlightenment traditions of Western Europe. Since Afro-Caribbean thought is inherently hybrid in nature and marked by strong competition between its European and African orientations, Henry highlights its four main influences--traditional African philosophy, the Afro-Christian school, Poeticism and Historicism--as his organizing principle for discussion. Offering a critical assessment of such writers as Wilson Harris, Derek Walcott, Edward Blyden, C.L.R. James and George Padmore, "Caliban's Reason" renders a much-needed portrait of Afro-Caribbean philosophy and fills a significant gap in the field.
Other form:	Print version: Henry, Paget. Caliban's reason. New York : Routledge, ©2000 0415926459

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Sampling the Founding Texts
1. The African Philosophical Heritage
2. C. L. R. James, African, and Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
3. Frantz Fanon, African, and Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
4. Wilson Harris and Caribbean Poeticism
Part II. Unity, Rationality, and Africana Thought
5. Sylvia Wynter: Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Thought
6. Afro-American Philosophy: A Caribbean Perspective
7. Habermas, Phenomenology, and Rationality: An African Contribution
Part III. Reconstructing Caribbean Historicism
8. Pan-Africanism and Philosophy: Race, Class, and Development
9. Caribbean Marxism: After the Neoliberal and Linguistic Turns
10. Caribbean Historicism: Toward Reconstruction
Conclusion
Notes
Index