Mbembe Out of the Dark Night

Essays on Decolonization
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-50059-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Achille Mbembe is one of the world’s most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences. In Out of the Dark Night, he offers a rich analysis of the paradoxes of the postcolonial moment that points toward new liberatory models of community and humanity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mbembe, Achille

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Planetary Entanglement
2. Disenclosure
3. Proximity Without Reciprocity
4. The Long French Imperial Winter

5. The House Without Keys
6. Afropolitanism
Epilogue: The Politics of the Future World
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Achille Mbembe is Research Professor in History and Politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the author of On the Postcolony (2001), Critique of Black Reason (2017), and Necropolitics (2019), and he is the winner of the 2018 Ernst Bloch Award as well as the Gerda Henkel Award.