Creolizing Hannah Arendt

Creolizing Hannah Arendt is the first book to explore the implications of creolizing Hannah Arendt (1906-75) and thinking for: action, liberation, freedom, power, democracy, identity, racism, prejudice, totalitarianism, immigration, judgment, revolution, decolonial politics, the human, and the modern traditions of Caribbean political thought, Africana philosophy, and existential phenomenology. Contributors include: Cristina Beltrán, Roger Berkowitz, Angélica Maria Bernal, Robert Eaglestone, Stephen Nathan Haymes, Paget Henry, Thomas Meagher, Dana Francisco Miranda, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Niklas Plaetzer, Neil Roberts.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction. Creolizing Arendt, Creolizing Thinking Marilyn Nissim-Sabat and Neil Roberts Chapter 1. Arendt’s Creole ‘Thought-Trains’ Robert Eaglestone Chapter 2. Sylvia Wynter, Political Philosophy, and the Creolization of Hannah Arendt Paget Henry Chapter 3. Pearl-Diving as Method: Arendt, Glissant, and the History of Broken Traditions Niklas Plaetzer Chapter 4. Africana Philosophy and the World-Alienation of the Modern Age Thomas Meagher Chapter 5. Arendt’s Political Ontology of Worldliness and Worldmaking in Conversation with the Global South Stephen Nathan Haymes Chapter 6. Existential Phenomenology and Creolized Thinking in Hannah Arendt’s Little Rock Writings Marilyn Nissim-Sabat Chapter 7. Going Public: Hannah Arendt, Immigrant Action, and the Space of Appearance Cristina Beltrán Chapter 8. Prejudice and Thinking: Hannah Arendt on Prejudice, Racism, and Politics Roger Berkowitz Chapter 9. Wretched Spaces: Manichean Divisions in the Arendtian Republic Dana Francisco Miranda Chapter 10. The Lost Revolution: Hannah Arendt, the Haitian Revolution, and Decolonial Theory Angélica Maria Bernal Index About the Editors and Contributors

About the Author :
Marilyn Nissim-Sabat is professor emeritus of philosophy at Lewis University and the author of Neither Victim Nor Survivor. She is presently working on a book to be titled Arendt and Husserl: Phenomenology, Totalitarianism, and the Banality of Evil. Nissim-Sabat has published book chapters on the work of thinkers including Lewis Gordon, Richard Wright, and Herman Melville as well as written numerous book reviews and articles on philosophy and psychoanalysis. Neil Roberts is John B. McCoy and John T. McCoy professor of Africana studies, political theory, and the philosophy of religion at Williams College, where he also serves as associate dean of the faculty. He has published widely on modern and contemporary political theory, politics in literature, and theories of freedom. His books include Freedom as Marronage and A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass. How to Live Free in an Age of Pessimism is his next monograph.

Review :
Creolizing Hannah Arendt is a sophisticated collection of essays that brings forth Hannah Arendt’s thinking about freedom and individuals while also integrating other theorists who have interpreted Arendt’s work over the last century. This wide-ranging volume, at once reverent and critical, brings Hannah Arendt, that most European of political theorists, into a new world. The breadth and depth of this volume and this series is extraordinary. Once again, political thought is made new by meeting out of bounds. This extraordinary collection of essays not only throws new light on Arendt’s conceptions of race and color, prejudice, migrants’ political actions, but also fruitfully reappropriates Arendt’s reflections on Jewish identity for creating a dialogue with thinkers of the Global South such as Edouard Glissant and Sylvia Wynter. Marilyn Nissim-Sabat and Neil Roberts have done us all a great service in assembling this extraordinary group of scholars with the task of creolizing Hannah Arendt’s monumental thought. Thinking through, with, and beyond Arendt, they bring freshness to the many pearls of wisdom she offered in her love for humanity, and they offer a model of creolizing thinking in which critique and generosity meet in the spirit of understanding. As some of these authors also conversed with Arendt, the insights they offer into her courage spirit, kind heart, and powerful mind are gifts for generation of readers to come. Creolizing Hannah Arendt is a much-needed contribution to the ongoing task of shifting the geography of reason.