The Haitian Revolution: Capitalism, Slavery and Counter-Modernity

ISBN-13: 9781509535484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str.

Eduardo Gruner; Ramsey McGlazer

Opis

"It is impossible to understand capitalism without analyzing slavery. Through an analysis of the Haitian Revolution, Greuner examines the impact of slavery on the evolution of modernity in South America, and the way in which this revolution created a 'counter-modernity,' a path on which Latin America and the Caribbean have travelled ever since"

Recenzje

"Eduardo Grüner's remarkable book is not only a brilliant discussion of slavery and the Haitian Revolution; it is also a profound philosophical and critical reflection, from the viewpoint of the slaves' rebellion, on the contradictions of Eurocentric Enlightenment and of Western (capitalist) modernity." Michael Löwy, author of The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx "What is revolutionary today about the Haitian Revolution, in which African slaves brought Napoleon's army to ignominious defeat? How does it fundamentally challenge ways of thinking not just about modern history, but about thinking itself? Read Grüner's book to find the answers to these pertinent questions." Michael Taussig, Professor, Columbia University, Class of 1933

Spis treści

Preface Prologue Chapter 1: The Category of Slavery and Modern Racism Elements for an Ethno-Historical Sociology of Ancient and Modern Slavery The Question of Racism Racism in "Early Modernity" The Traces of Time A Better World? Chapter 2: The Rebellion of the (Slave) Masses and the Haitian Revolution On the Combined and Uneven From Particularism to (False) Universalism: A "Philosophical Revolution" The (Uncertain) Logic of Slave Rebellions The Rest of the Americas Enter Saint-Domingue/Haiti A Portrait of Saint-Domingue/Haiti in 1791 An Excursus on Vodou and its Revolutionary Character The Social Complexities of Saint-Domingue The Confused Dynamic of the Revolution The Meaning(s) of the Haitian Revolution On "Creative" Violence Chapter 3: The Disavowed "Philosophical Revolution": From Enlightenment Thought to the Crisis of Abstract Universalism Shadows in the Enlightenment: Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Slavery Slavery without Scare Quotes: Between Hegel and Marx The Black Enlightenment: The Haitian "Constitutional Revolution" The Difficulties of Theorizing (Haitian) Revolution Literature and Art Have Their Say Epilogue

O autorze

Eduardo Grüner is a sociologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Buenos Aires. He was awarded the Argentine National Literary Prize in 2011 for the original Spanish version of this book.