Advancing a creolizing reading of the eighteenth-century philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this volume explores Rousseau's strong resonances in Caribbean thought and politics. Editor(s): Gordon, Jane Anna; Roberts, Neil. Series: Creolizing the Canon. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450. . 2014. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Creolizing Rousseau
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
Publication Date: 2014
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1783482818
ISBN 13: 9781783482818
Binding: Soft cover
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Advancing a creolizing reading of the eighteenth-century philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this volume explores Rousseau's strong resonances in Caribbean thought and politics.

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Jane Anna Gordon is Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut and President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. Her books include Why They Couldn’t Wait: A Critique of the Black-Jewish Conflict Over Community Control in Ocean-Hill Brownsville, 1967–1971 (2001), Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age (2010) and Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Fanon (2014).

Neil Roberts is John B. McCoy and John T. McCoy professor of Africana studies, political theory, and the philosophy of religion at Williams College, where he also serves as associate dean of the faculty. He has published widely on modern and contemporary political theory, politics in literature, and theories of freedom. His books include Freedom as Marronage and A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass. How to Live Free in an Age of Pessimism is his next monograph.

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