Creolizing Hegel

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The 19th-century German thinker G.W.F. Hegel is a towering figure in the canon of European philosophy. Indeed, most of the significant figures of European Philosophy after Hegel explicitly address his thought in their own work. Outside of the familiar territory of the Western canon, however, Hegel has also loomed large, most often as a villain, but sometimes also as a resource in struggles for liberation from colonialism, sexism and racism. Hegel understood his own work as aiming above freedom, yet ironically wrote texts that are not only explicitly Eurocentric and even racist. Should we, and is it even possible, to bring Hegelian texts and ideas into productive discourse with those he so often himself saw as distinctly Other and even inferior? In response to this question, Creolizing Hegel brings together transdisciplinary scholars presenting various approaches to creolizing the work of Hegel. The essays in this volume take Hegelian texts and themes across borders of method, discipline, and tradition. The task is not simply to compare and contrast Hegel with some 'outsider' figure or tradition, but rather to reconsider and reconfigure our understandings of all of the figures and ideas brought together in these cross-disciplinary essays. Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: What Is Rational Is Creolizing On Creolization as Movement and Praxis Creolization and the Movement of Reason Brief Sketch of the Work as a Whole Notes Part I Reason, Logic, and Dialectic Chapter 1 Boundary, Ambivalence, Jaibería, or, How to Appropriate Hegel Double Coloniality, Decolonial Strategies Boundaries, Constraints Conclusion Notes Chapter 2 C.L.R. James, Africana Transcendental Philosophy, and the Creolizing of Hegel Foundations of James’ Interest in Hegel’s Dialectic James and Hegel’s Science of Logic Between James and Hegel: Dialectic and Self-Transformation and Creolization Dialectic and Self-Transformation in Hegel Dialectic and Self-Transformation in James The Creole Aspects of James’ Mature Dialectic Conclusion: James, Creolization, and Afro-Caribbean Philosophy Chapter 3 Thinking through the Negative : Adorno’s Reading of Hegel Adorno’s Model of the Subject and the Spontaneity-.Receptivity Thesis Species of Thought, Nonidentity Thinking, Identity Thinking, and Pathological Identity Thinking Adorno’s Reading of Hegel Embracing Hegel Notes Chapter 4 Why I Am So Wise: Hegelian Reflections on Whether Reason Can Be Enhanced Notes Part II History and Aesthetics Chapter 5 Revisiting “Hegel and Haiti”: Postcolonial Readings of the Lord/.Bondsman Dialectic The Struggle for Recognition “Hegel and Haiti” The History of a Fruitful Misreading Biko and Black Consciousness Conclusion Notes Chapter 6 Hegel and Adorno on Negative Universal History: The Dialectics of Species-Life Universal History and Species-Life Two Senses of Negativity in Negative Universal History Conclusion: Negative Universal Histories in Fanon and Lynn Hunt Notes Chapter 7 Hegel among the Cannibals Ways of Seeing and Sighting Hegelian Anthropophagy The Plot Thickens (Voraciously and Infinitely) Hegel’s (Risky) Investment Hegel Invited to Dinner with the Amerindians: Against the Liquidation of the Future Notes Chapter 8 Creolizing Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy Creolization in Context Hegel’s Aesthetics Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy The Radical Africana Tradition and Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy Notes Chapter 9 Hegel, Musical Subjectivity, and Jazz Beneath the Score Selfhood and Musical Time Instrumental Music and Time-Feel Performance, Improvisation, and Style Notes Part III Ethical Life, Law, and Politics Chapter 10 The Future Is Now: Leopoldo Zea’s Hegelianism and the Liberation of the Mexican Past Zea’s Reading of Hegel’s Philosophy of History Zea’s “The Dialectic of Consciousness in Mexico” (1952) The Mexican Case Creolizing Hegel Notes Chapter 11 Crossing Boundaries: Hegel, de Beauvoir, and hooks on Exclusion and Identity The Hegelian Other: Nature, the Feminine, and Africa de Beauvoir Reading with and against Hegel The hooksian Other: Nature, the Feminine, and Africa Conclusion Notes Chapter 12 Ideal Theory and Racial Justice: Some Hegelian Considerations Rawls’ A Theory of Justice Mills on Rawls Rawls and Justification Recognition and Normativity Notes Chapter 13 Oppression, Legal Reform, and Hegel’s Natural Law Internalism Hegel and Natural Law “Internalism” Natural Law Internalism and Social Critique Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index List of Contributors