Concrete Utopianism
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780823299874
ISBN-10: 0823299872
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 156 x 227 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:New
Editura: Fordham University Press
ISBN-10: 0823299872
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 156 x 227 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:New
Editura: Fordham University Press
Cuprins
Preface | ix
Introduction: The Opposite of Pessimism Is Not Optimism | 1
I. Refiguring Politics
1. The Possible- Impossible: Dialectical Optics and Uncanny Refractions (Here, Now, Us) | 17
2. Concrete Utopianism and Critical Internationalism: Refusing Left Realism | 35
3. Practicing Translation: Beyond Left Culturalism | 62
4. Of Pessimism and Presentism: Against Left Melancholy | 86
Intermezzo
5. Solidarity | 109
6. Anticipation | 122
II. Unthinking History
7. Time as a Real Abstraction: Clock- Time, Nonsynchronism, Untimeliness | 139
8. Dialectic of Past and Future | 157
9. It¿s Still Happening Again: Ontology, Hauntology, and Ellison¿s Dialectics of Invisibility | 191
10. A Prophetic Vision of the Past: Glissant¿s Poetics of Nonhistory | 221
III. Anticipating Futures
11. The World We Wish to See | 263
Acknowledgments | 291
Notes | 295
Index | 363
Introduction: The Opposite of Pessimism Is Not Optimism | 1
I. Refiguring Politics
1. The Possible- Impossible: Dialectical Optics and Uncanny Refractions (Here, Now, Us) | 17
2. Concrete Utopianism and Critical Internationalism: Refusing Left Realism | 35
3. Practicing Translation: Beyond Left Culturalism | 62
4. Of Pessimism and Presentism: Against Left Melancholy | 86
Intermezzo
5. Solidarity | 109
6. Anticipation | 122
II. Unthinking History
7. Time as a Real Abstraction: Clock- Time, Nonsynchronism, Untimeliness | 139
8. Dialectic of Past and Future | 157
9. It¿s Still Happening Again: Ontology, Hauntology, and Ellison¿s Dialectics of Invisibility | 191
10. A Prophetic Vision of the Past: Glissant¿s Poetics of Nonhistory | 221
III. Anticipating Futures
11. The World We Wish to See | 263
Acknowledgments | 291
Notes | 295
Index | 363
Notă biografică
Gary Wilder is Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is Professor in the PhD Program of Anthropology, with cross appointments in History and French. He is the author of Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity (Fordham University Press, 2022), Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke University Press, 2015), and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the World Wars (University of Chicago Press, 2005). He is coauthor of Theses on Theory and History (special issue of History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History, 2020) and two edited volumes, The Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for Life Is the Matter (Duke University Press, 2019) and The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present (Fordham University Press, 2018). He is currently writing a book on the political thought of C. L. R. James.