Another HumanityBenjamin P. DavisLabel: Edinburgh University PressDescription: Is there a way of being human that could invite people away from today’s models of violence and consumerism? Looking forward to a new increasingly creolized century in 1997 the Martinican poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant asked ‘Do we have the right and the means to live another dimension of humanity? But how?’Building on the defense of human rights he outlined in Choose Your Bearing Benjamin P. Davis traces figures of 'the human' and ‘humanity' in W. E. B. Du Bois Édouard Glissant Sylvia Wynter and Edward Said. He concludes with a reflection on Hannah Arendt’s post-war correspondence with Karl Jaspers which offers lessons for a new humanism as we witness ongoing wars today.
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