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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154282903321

Autore

An Yountae

Titolo

The decolonial abyss : mysticism and cosmopolitics from the ruins / / An Yountae

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2017

ISBN

0-8232-7312-1

0-8232-7311-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Collana

Perspectives in Continental philosophy

Disciplina

190

Soggetti

Meaninglessness (Philosophy)

Postcolonialism

Decolonization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book thematizes the mystical figure of the abyss by examining the abyss as the dialectical process of the self's reconstruction followed by its dispossession. It traces such process in Neoplatonic mysticism, German idealism, and Afro-Caribbean philosophy with the end of politicizing the mystical figure from the standpoint of coloniality.