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Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History
In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation.
Paperback, 160 pages
Published
February 28th 2009
by University of Pittsburgh Press
(first published 2005)
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This theoretical text was worth the read for Buck-Morss expansion on her earlier essay from which the book takes its name, "Hegel and Haiti." Here, Buck-Morss expands on her ideas that would place Haiti at the center of Hegel's ruminations on lord and bondsman/master-slave dialectics; she also attempts to think through what it might mean to philosophy to rethink Haiti's role in concepts of modernity and history. Here, however, Buck-Morss takes a step back from her more radical earlie...more
Great book, though the first section on Hegel's possible awareness of the Haitian Revolution and its effects on his Master-Slave dialectic in the Phenomenology was slightly tedious. The second section on Universal History was far more engaging, for me at least. Buck-Morss makes some very interesting and suggestive comments on the role of history and moral imagination in our ability to reconstitute the idea and reality of human freedom. She also tries to derail some traditional ties to larger pol...more
Half quasi-interesting history of late 18C international revolutionary culture coupled with middling Hegel reading, half near unbearable reflections on "Universal History" -- watered down attempt to couple critical theory with opportunistic post modernized identity politics. Symptomatic.
When I was reading Hegel's Letters I thought about Toussaint Louverture the same way Hegel thought about Napoleon riding through Jena...a World Spirit...according to Buck-Morss no one ever thought about that before her. I'm gonna give her a call.
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proclamation from Pat Robertson...Everything is upside down
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Finished this book just over a week ago and now this pathetic
proclamation from Pat Robertson...Everything is upside down
again...I got ta' hating again...
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