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1 online resource (vi, 231 pages). |
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monochrome |
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text file |
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New directions in critical theory
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New directions in critical theory.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
In the early twentieth century, the life philosophy of Henri Bergson summoned the Elan vital, or vital force, as the source of creative evolution. Bergson also appealed to intuition, which focused on experience rather than discursive thought and scientific cognition. Particularly influential for the literary and political NEgritude movement of the 1930s, which opposed French colonialism, Bergson's life philosophy formed an appealing alternative to Western modernity, decried as "mechanical," and set the stage for later developments in postcolonial theory and vitalist discourse. Revisiting narratives on life that were produced in this age of machinery and war, Donna V. Jones shows how Bergson, Nietzsche, and the puts Leopold Senghor and AimE CEsaire fashioned the concept of life into a central aesthetic and metaphysical category while also implicating it in discourses on race and nation. Jones argues that twentieth-century vitalism cannot be understood separately from these racial and anti-Semitic discussions. She also shows that some dominant models of emancipation within black thought become intelligible only when in dialogue with the vitalist tradition. Jones's study strikes at the core of contemporary critical theory, which integrates these older discourses into larger critical frameworks, and she traces the ways in which vitalism continues to draw from and contribute to its making. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Life in literature.
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Life in literature. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
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Vitalism in literature.
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Vitalism in literature. |
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Negritude (Literary movement)
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Negritude (Literary movement) |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jones, Donna V., 1964- Racial discourses of life philosophy. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010 9780231145480 (DLC) 2009031388 (OCoLC)429816919 |
| ISBN |
9780231518604 (electronic book) |
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0231518609 (electronic book) |
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9780231145480 |
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0231145489 |
| Music No. |
EB00662554 Recorded Books |
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