Choose Your Bearing: ?Ouard Glissant, Human Rights, And Decolonial Ethics (Contemporary Continental Ethics)

Reads ?ouard Glissant as an ethical theoristWhat do we in the West owe those who grow our food, sew our clothes and produce our electronics? And what have we always owed one another, but forgotten, avoided, or simply disregarded? Looking back on nearly a century of colonial war and genocide, in 1990 the poet and philosopher ?ouard Glissant appealed directly to his readers, calling them to re-orient their lives in service of the political struggles of their time: 'You must choose your bearing'. Informed by the prayer camps at Standing Rock, and presenting Glissant alongside Stuart Hall, Emmanuel Levinas, Simone Weil, Enrique Dussel, Gloria Anzald? and W. E. B. Du Bois, this book offers an urgent ethics for the present - an ethics of risk, commitment and care that together form a new sense of decolonial responsibility.Benjamin P. Davis is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of African American Studies at Saint Louis University.

• • Author: Benjamin P. Davis
• • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• • Publication Date: Nov 15, 2023
• • Number of Pages: 264 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1399522442
• • ISBN-13: 9781399522441