04251nam 2200913 450 991082785480332120230124192646.00-8232-5482-80-8232-5484-40-8232-6088-70-8232-5485-210.1515/9780823254842(CKB)3710000000103127(EBL)3239900(SSID)ssj0001184576(PQKBManifestationID)12543481(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001184576(PQKBWorkID)11196402(PQKB)11392136(MiAaPQ)EBC3239900(StDuBDS)EDZ0000862532(OCoLC)875725438(MdBmJHUP)muse27565(DE-B1597)555251(DE-B1597)9780823254842(Au-PeEL)EBL3239900(CaPaEBR)ebr10860803(CaONFJC)MIL727776(OCoLC)923764469(OCoLC)880450007(MiAaPQ)EBC1643957(Au-PeEL)EBL1643957(EXLCZ)99371000000010312720140509h20142014 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrCreolizing political theory reading Rousseau through Fanon /Jane Anna GordonFirst edition.New York :Fordham University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (304 p.)Just IdeasDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-96494-7 0-8232-5481-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Delegitimating Decadent Inquiry --2. Decolonizing Disciplinary Methods --3. Rousseau’s General Will --4. Fanonian National Consciousness --5. Thinking Through Creolization --Conclusion --Notes --References --IndexMight creolization offer political theory an approach that would better reflect the heterogeneity of political life? After all, it describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the plantation societies of the Caribbean but did so through their capacity to exemplify living culture, thought, and political practice. Similar processes continue today, when people who once were strangers find themselves unequal co-occupants of new political locations they both seek to call “home. ”Unlike multiculturalism, in which different cultures are thought to co-exist relatively separately, creolization describes how people reinterpret themselves through interaction with one another. While indebted to comparative political theory, Gordon offers a critique of comparison by demonstrating the generative capacity of creolizing methodologies. She does so by bringing together the eighteenth-century revolutionary Swiss thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the twentieth-century Martinican-born Algerian liberationist Frantz Fanon. While both provocatively challenged whether we can study the world in ways that do not duplicate the prejudices that sustain its inequalities, Fanon, she argues, outlined a vision of how to bring into being the democratically legitimate alternatives that Rousseau mainly imagined.Just ideas.General willLegitimacy of governmentsPolitical sciencePhilosophyCreolization.Fanon.Rousseau.alternative methodologies.colonization.comparative political theory.decolonization.democratic legitimacy.national consciousness.revolution.the general will.General will.Legitimacy of governments.Political sciencePhilosophy.320.01POL010000SOC001000PHI019000bisacshGordon Jane Anna1976-894064MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827854803321Creolizing political theory4105128UNINA