Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities: Anténor Firmin, Western Intellectual Tradition, and Black Atlantic Tradition (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

Synopsis

Joseph Anténor Firmin (1850–1911) was the reigning public intellectual and political critic in Haiti in the nineteenth century. He was the first “Black anthropologist” and “Black Egyptologist” to deconstruct the Western interpretation of global history and challenge the ideological construction of human nature and theories of knowledge in the Western social sciences and the humanities. As an anti-racist intellectual and cosmopolitan thinker, Firmin’s writings challenge Western ideas of the colonial subject, race achievement, and modernity’s imagination of a linear narrative based on the false premises of social evolution and development, colonial history and epistemology, and the intellectual evolution of the Aryan-White race. Firmin articulated an alternative way to study global historical trajectories, the political life, human societies and interactions, and the diplomatic relations and dynamics between the nations and the races. Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities is the first full-length book devoted to Joseph Anténor Firmin. It reexamines the importance of his thought and legacy, and its relevance for the twenty-first century’s culture of humanism, and the continuing challenge of race and racism.

Copyright:

2021

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Publisher Quality

Book Size:

246 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000379594

Related ISBNs:

9780367764678, 9781003167037, 9780367460679

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

05/07/21

Copyrighted By:

Taylor & Francis

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Philosophy, Politics and Government

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Edited by:

Celucien L. Joseph

Edited by:

Paul C. Mocombe