Allen-Paisant, J orcid.org/0000-0002-5705-0522 (2021) Unthinking philosophy: Aimé Césaire, poetry, and the politics of Western knowledge. Atlantic Studies, 18 (2). pp. 193-216. ISSN 1478-8810
Abstract
Energised by his concern with the place of poetry in and as philosophy, Césaire’s work is engaged in thinking knowledge, a praxis which becomes fundamental to his critique of the ideology of imperialism. The concern with poetry as magical thinking and the question of what it contributes to philosophy, and more particularly, to epistemology, takes on pressing importance in the light of colonialism, whose domination is predicated on the hegemonic disruption and erasure of indigenous knowledges. Through his radical re-evaluation of Western epistemology, Césaire shows that what is at stake in African/diasporic, and indeed planetary, futures, is a radical reframing of the category of philosophy and the possibility of an alternative relation to objects. The issue of coloniality’s imbrication in a Western ontology of objects takes on amplified importance in the light of current capitalist crises, including ecological collapse.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of an article published in Atlantic Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Aimé Césaire, ontology, epistemology, decolonisation, capitalism, négritude, poetry, nature, pedagogy |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > French (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Leverhulme Trust ECF-2016-536 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 28 Aug 2020 13:36 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2022 15:07 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14788810.2020.1816129 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:164876 |