Choose Your Bearing

Edouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics

Benjamin P. Davis

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Edinburgh University Press
08 November 2023

Philosophy; Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism; History of ideas; Human rights; Civil rights & citizenship

Series: Contemporary Continental Ethics

What do we in the West owe those who grow our food, sew our clothes and produce our electronics? And what have we always owed one another, but forgotten, avoided, or simply disregarded? Looking back on nearly a century of colonial war and genocide, in 1990 the poet and philosopher douard Glissant appealed directly to his readers, calling them to re-orient their lives in service of the political struggles of their time: 'You must choose your bearing'. Informed by the prayer camps at Standing Rock, and presenting Glissant alongside Stuart Hall, Emmanuel Levinas, Simone Weil, Enrique Dussel, Gloria Anzalda and W. E. B. Du Bois, this book offers an urgent ethics for the present

an ethics of risk, commitment and care that together form a new sense of decolonial responsibility.

By: Benjamin P. Davis
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781399522434
ISBN 10: 1399522434
Series: Contemporary Continental Ethics
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 08 November 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Benjamin Davis is a Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies, Saint Louis University, USA. He is the author of Simone Weil's Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) and the co-editor of Creolizing Critical Theory: New Voices in Caribbean Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024).

Reviews for Choose Your Bearing: Edouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics

""In this ethically bracing and philosophically wide-ranging intervention, Benjamin Davis calls on douard Glissant to help reimagine human rights for a politics that requires more awareness of and responsibility for global hierarchy and oppression. Human rights are not beyond reproach but they are also not unsalvageable, if they are reforged as credible tools for emancipation, as Glissant and others have foreseen."" -Samuel Moyn, Yale University