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Decolonizing Dialectics
Anticolonial theorists and revolutionaries have long turned to dialectical thought as a central weapon in their fight against oppressive structures and conditions. This relationship was never easy, however, as anticolonial thinkers have resisted the historical determinism, teleology, Eurocentrism, and singular emphasis that some Marxisms place on class identity at the expense of race, nation, and popular identity. In recent decades, the conflict between dialectics and postcolonial theory has only deepened. In Decolonizing Dialectics Geo Maher breaks this impasse by bringing the work of Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Enrique Dussel together with contemporary Venezuelan politics to formulate a dialectics suited to the struggle against the legacies of colonialism and slavery. This is a decolonized dialectics premised on constant struggle in which progress must be fought for and where the struggles of the wretched of the earth themselves provide the only guarantee of historical motion.
Book Details
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publish Date: Feb 3rd, 2017
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 5.90in - 0.60in - 0.75lb
- EAN: 9780822362432
- Categories: • Political• History & Surveys - General
About the Author
Geo Maher is Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies at Drexel University and the author of We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution, also published by Duke University Press.
Praise for this book
"Theoretically informed and mindful of the correctives real history offers to speculation, this book is a noteworthy contribution to critical social theory and decolonial discourses. Recommended. Graduate students through faculty."
--B. G. Chang "Choice" (6/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)
--B. G. Chang "Choice" (6/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"Decolonizing Dialectics marks an important contribution to a growing body of literature concerned with decolonizing critical - and, more broadly speaking, political - theory, as well as a worthwhile addition to the works devoted to the dialectical tradition and its critics. In particular, Ciccariello-Maher's readings of Fanon and Dussel offer a valuable new take on their respective engagements with dialectical thought, and on the complex and fraught relationship that dialectics shares with decolonization, theoretically and practically."--Michael Elliott "Contemporary Political Theory" (4/25/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"[A] rather unique and sophisticated project that at times leaves the reader breathless from the elegant speed with which it moves through concepts.... [T]his book functions as an opening, by recentering dialectical reason and placing it in service of a radical anti-systemic practice, to successive discussions...."--Joshua Moufawad-Paul "Marx & Philosophy Review of Books" (5/10/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"Decolonizing Dialectics makes an essential contribution to our understanding of the dialectic of unity and difference and how difference becomes antagonism within and beyond the legacies of colonialism. It is essential reading in the renewal of debate about the philosophy of internal relations and the systematic dialectic."--Adam David Morton "Progress in Political Economy" (10/24/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"Decolonizing Dialectics' timeliness lies in the fact that it gives us an approach to these tensions as academics, which exploits their decolonial potential, and affirms, after and through Fanon, their necessary violence, rather than just settle for reciprocity, closure, or another book on dialectics."--Shona N. Jackson "Antipode" (4/26/2018 12:00:00 AM)
"This clear, well-written and refreshingly forthright book aims to decolonize dialectics and to wield that decolonized dialectics (never, Ciccariello-Maher insists, 'the dialectic') as a method to understand and further decolonization. . . . This is an important work best read in the spirit in which it is written: with urgency, anger, hope and a refusal to simply accept what is present."--David M Bell "Political Studies Review" (2/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)
"The author makes important contributions to the fields of dialectics, Marxism, postmodernism, and postcolonial studies, and he has an aptitude for making tough philosophical questions accessible. Decolonizing Dialectics provides an excellent framework for understanding the major theorists he uses as well as Hegel, Marx, Foucault, and several other scholars."--Luis M. Sierra "Journal of Global South Studies" (4/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)
"A light-footed and richly textured work, which demonstrates how radically different historical moments can speak to one another; how dialectics animated by a certain mobility and openness might help to explain, and ultimately transcend, the legacies of colonialism and slavery."--Alex Millen "Journal of American Studies" (9/1/2019 12:00:00 AM)
"Maher's book is an important effort to redefine the dialectic in a more radical and indeed, violent manner."--William L. Remley "Anarchist Studies" (9/1/2019 12:00:00 AM)