Decolonizing Dialectics (Radical Américas)

Maher, Geo

Duke University Press（2017/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780822362234
• DDC分類 190

Full Description

Anticolonial theorists and revolutionaries have long turned to dialectical thought as a central weapon in their fight against oppressive structures and conditions. This relationship was never easy, however, as anticolonial thinkers have resisted the historical determinism, teleology, Eurocentrism, and singular emphasis that some Marxisms place on class identity at the expense of race, nation, and popular identity. In recent decades, the conflict between dialectics and postcolonial theory has only deepened. In Decolonizing Dialectics Geo Maher breaks this impasse by bringing the work of Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Enrique Dussel together with contemporary Venezuelan politics to formulate a dialectics suited to the struggle against the legacies of colonialism and slavery. This is a decolonized dialectics premised on constant struggle in which progress must be fought for and where the struggles of the wretched of the earth themselves provide the only guarantee of historical motion.

Contents

Acknowledgments  ix
Ruptures  1
1. Jumpstarting the Class Struggle  23
2. Toward a New Dialectics of Race  47
3. The Decolonial Nation in Motion  75
4. Latin American Dialectics and the Other  103
5. Venezuela's Combatiive Dialectics  123
Spirals  153
Notes  171
Bibliography  219
Index  233