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Is there a way of being human that could invite people away from today's models of violence and consumerism? Looking forward to a new, increasingly creolized century, in 1997 the Martinican poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant asked, 'Do we have the right and the means to live another dimension of humanity? But how?'
Building on the defense of human rights he outlined in Choose Your Bearing, Benjamin P. Davis traces figures of 'the human' and 'humanity' in W. E. B. Du Bois, Édouard Glissant, Sylvia Wynter and Edward Said. He concludes with a reflection on Hannah Arendt's post-war correspondence with Karl Jaspers, which offers lessons for a new humanism as we witness ongoing wars today.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Thinking Race and Humanity Together (An Attempt)
Critiques of 'The Human'
Defenses of 'The Human'
Conceptual Sufficiency and Stuart Hall's Politics without Guarantees
Chapter Outline
Part I: Detour through Theory
Chapter One: W. E. B. Du Bois's Anti-War Humanism
Du Bois's Use of 'Humanity' in Black Reconstruction and John Brown
Du Bois's Use of Human Rights in the 1940s
Notes toward a Du Boisian Politics
Chapter Two: Édouard Glissant's Relational Humanism
The Importance of Poetry
'The Human' across Glissant's Theoretical Work
Returning to the Ancestors
Part II: Risking the Personal
Chapter Three: Sylvia Wynter's Ceremonial Humanism
'The Human' in Wynter
Secular Criticism
Natural Law and Humanism
Returning to Ceremony
Chapter Four: Edward Said's Post-colonial Humanism
Representations
Style
Positionality
Coda
Chapter Five: Hannah Arendt's Ordinary Humanism
Caught in Categories
Contradictions
Giving an Account
An Ethics of Correspondence
Bibliography
Index
