Choose Your Bearing by Benjamin P Davis
Poet and philosopher Edouard Glissant called his readers to re-orient their lives in service of the political struggles of their time: 'You must choose your bearing'. 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.
"In this ethically bracing and philosophically wide-ranging intervention, Benjamin Davis calls on douard Glissant to help reimagine human rights for a politics that requires more awareness of and responsibility for global hierarchy and oppressionHuman rights are not beyond reproach but they are also not unsalvageable, if they are reforged as credible tools for emancipation, as Glissant and others have foreseen." -Samuel Moyn, Yale University
Benjamin P. Davis is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy as well as Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights, and Decolonial Ethics, also by Edinburgh University Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781399522434 |
| ISBN 10 | 1399522434 |
| Title | Choose Your Bearing |
| Author | Benjamin P Davis |
| Series | Contemporary Continental Ethics |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2023-08-31 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
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