Another Humanity

Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt

von Benjamin P. Davis

280 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Contemporary Continental Ethics
• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Philosophie Themen der Philosophie Soziale und politische Philosophie
• ISBN: 9781399548618
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.10.2025
• Größe: 215 x 139 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press