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The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy
- Negritude, Vitalism, and Modernity
Engelsk Paperback
The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy
- Negritude, Vitalism, and Modernity
Engelsk Paperback

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In the early twentieth century, the life philosophy of Henri Bergson summoned the elan vital, or vital force, as the source of creative evolution. Bergson also appealed to intuition, which focused on experience rather than discursive thought and scientific cognition. Particularly influential for the literary and political Negritude movement of the 1930s, which opposed French colonialism, Bergson's life philosophy formed an appealing alternative to Western modernity, decried as "mechanical," and set the stage for later developments in postcolonial theory and vitalist discourse. Revisiting narratives on life that were produced in this age of machinery and war, Donna V. Jones shows how Bergson, Nietzsche, and the poets Leopold Senghor and Aime Cesaire fashioned the concept of life into a central aesthetic and metaphysical category while also implicating it in discourses on race and nation. Jones argues that twentieth-century vitalism cannot be understood separately from these racial and anti-Semitic discussions. She also shows that some dominant models of emancipation within black thought become intelligible only when in dialogue with the vitalist tradition. Jones's study strikes at the core of contemporary critical theory, which integrates these older discourses into larger critical frameworks, and she traces the ways in which vitalism continues to draw from and contribute to its making.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9780231145497
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0231145497
Udg. Dato:
27 dec 2011
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
155mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
Columbia University Press
Oplagsdato:
27 dec 2011
Forfatter(e):
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