The Decolonial Abyss : Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins /

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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 my...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: An Yountae (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Colonization > Religious aspects.
Imperialism > Philosophy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
postcolonialism.
Imperialisme > Philosophie.
Decolonisation.
Postcolonialisme.
Non-sens.
Decolonization.
Postcolonialism.
Meaninglessness (Philosophy)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : staring into the abyss
  • Situating the self in the abyss
  • The mystical abyss : via negativa
  • The dialectical abyss : the restless negative of Hegel
  • The colonial abyss : groundlessness of being
  • Creolizing cosmopolitics : poetics from the deep.

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