Creolizing Hegel

The 19th-century German thinker G.W.F. Hegel is a towering figure in the canon of European philosophy. Indeed, most of the significant figures of European Philosophy after Hegel explicitly address his thought in their own work. Outside of the familiar territory of the Western canon, however, Hegel has also loomed large, most often as a villain, but sometimes also as a resource in struggles for liberation from colonialism, sexism and racism. Hegel understood his own work as aiming abovefreedom, yet ironically wrote texts that are not only explicitly Eurocentric and even racist. Should we, and is it even possible, to bring Hegelian texts and ideas into productive discourse with those he so often himself saw as distinctlyOtherand even inferior?

In response to this question, Creolizing Hegel brings together transdisciplinary scholars presenting various approaches to creolizing the work of Hegel. The essays in this volume take Hegelian texts and themes across borders of method, discipline, and tradition. The task is not simply to compare and contrast Hegel with some 'outsider' figure or tradition, but rather to reconsider and reconfigure our understandings of all of the figures and ideas brought together in these cross-disciplinary essays.

Michael J. Monahan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University. He is the author of The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity (2011).

Contributors: María Acosta, Philosophy, DePaul University, USA; Stefan Bird-Pollan, Philosophy, University of Kentucky, USA; Norman Ajari, Equipe de Recherche sur les Rationalités Philosophiques et les Savoirs (ERRAPHIS), Université de Toulouse, France; Jeffrey A. Gauthier, Philosophy, Portland University, USA; Nicholas A. Germana, Keene State College, USA; Nigel C. Gibson, Development Studies, Univeristy of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa; Greg Graham, African and African-American Studies, Oklahoma University, USA; Paget Henry, Brown University, USA; Brandon Hogan, Howard University, USA; Craig Matarrese, Mankato State University, USA; Shannon M. Mussett, Philosophy, Utah Valley University, USA; Karen Ng, Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, USA; Carlos Alberto Sánchez, Philosophy, San-Jose State University, USA; Ricardo Sanín Restrepo, Political and Legal Theory, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico; Richard Dien Winfield, Philosophy, University of Georgia, USA; Rocío Zambrana, Philosophy, University of Oregon, USA

Introduction: What is Rational is CreolizingMichael J. Monahan /Part I: Reason, Logic, and Dialectic / 1. Boundary, Ambivalence, Jaibería, or, How to Appropriate HegelRocío Zambrana / 2. CLR James, Africana Transcendental Philosophy and the Creolizing of HegelPaget Henry/ 3. Thinking Through the Negative: Adornos Reading of Hegel /Stefan Bird-Pollan 4. Why I Am So Wise: Hegelian Reflections on Whether Reason Can be EnhancedRichard Dien WinfieldPart II: History and Aesthetics / 5. Revisiting Hegel and Haiti: Postcolonial Readings of the Lord/Bondsman DialecticNicholas A. Germana /6. Hegel and Adorno on Negative Universal History: The Dialectics of Species LifeKaren Ng /7. Hegel Among the Cannibals Oscar Guardiola-Rivera /8. Creolizing Hegels Theory of Tragedy Greg A.Graham /9. Hegel, Musical Subjectivity, and JazzCraig Matarrese /Part III: Ethical Life, Law, and Politics / 10. The Future is Now: Loepoldo Zeas Hegelianism and the Liberation of the Mexican PastCarlos Alberto Sánchez /11. Crossing Boundaries: Hegel, Beauvoir, and hooks on Exclusion and IdentityShannon M. Mussett / 12.Ideal Theory and Racial Justice: Some Hegelian ConsiderationsBrandon Hogan / 13. Oppression, Legal Reform, and Hegels Natural Law InternalismJeffrey A. Gauthier