Nick Nesbitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 460583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Nesbitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Nesbitt |
| SIGNATURE | NESBITT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-5930-0540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Abstraction, Subjectivity, and Social Reproduction in Capitalist Slavery
The essay responds to the critiques by Gavin Arnall, Jackqueline Frost, and Grégory Pierrot of the author’s The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean (2022), focusing on the problems of abstraction, Marxist humanism, and social reproduction theory in relation to capitalist slavery and Marx’s critique of political economy
Marlene L. Daut. Awakening the Ashes
At the crossroads
The Price of Slavery
Deleuze, Adorno a kompozice hudební mnohosti
Th is text, fi rst published in Deleuze and Music, edited by Ian Buchanan and Marcel Swiboda (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004), pp. 54–74, Nick Nesbitt compares Th eodor W. Adorno’s negative dialectical approach with Gilles Deleuze’s antidialectical approach to the question of multiplicity and diff erentiation within music. Nesbitt concludes with a consideration of the attempts made to address the problem in the work of important twen…
The Concept in Crisis
Reading Reading Capital -- The Althusserian definition of "theory" / Alain Badiou -- Rereading the symptomatic reading / Robert J.C. Young -- Translation and event : rereading Reading Capital / Emily Apter -- To have done with alienation, or, how to orient oneself in ideology / Knox Peden -- Reading Capital in context -- A point of heresy in Western Marxism: Althusser's and Tronti's antithetic readings -- Of capital in the early 1960s / Étienne B…
Concept in Crisis
Marx after Marxism
Th e article distinguishes between two fundamental dynamics in Marx’s critique of capitalism: the humanist, cyclical, perpetually-renewed struggle between capitalists and wage labor over profi ts, wages, and the distribution of social wealth more generally and what I term a “posthuman” dialectic between humans and machines, unfolding as the unilinear historical dynamic of automation and the corresponding decreases it brings to the capacity of liv…
From Louverture to Lenin
This essay argues that Aimé Césaire remained committed to a nonaligned, tricontinental Marxism well beyond his resignation from the Parti Communiste Français in 1956. It describes this commitment positively in relation to "black Jacobinism" as well as the limitations of Césaire's Leninist commitment to recuperative modernization
Penser la politique avec Césaire
Revolutionary inhumanism
The article proposes a reading of Les Damnés de la terre by F. Fanon (1968a) via its original and compelling conjugation of a revolutionary, anti-colonial humanism. Insofar as Fanon’s is resolutely a humanism to come, a postcolonial ‘invention of a new species’, what I will call Fanon’s inhumanism must be grasped in its fundamentals as a complex and original critique of colonial, and defense of anticolonial, violence. The article proposes that th…
Early Glissant
Early GlissantFrom the Destitution of the Political to Antillean Ultra-Leftism Nick Nesbitt (bio) Like Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon, Édouard Glissant combined a passionate commitment to the politics of decolonization with a concern to analyze the modes and structures of French colonialism, from its origins to its singular perpetuation in the form it has taken since 1946 as the so-called "Departmentalization" of the former "colony" of Martinique …
Chapter 5 The Postcolonial Event
Haiti, Hegel, and the politics of prescription
Susan Buck-Morss Hegel, Haiti and Universal History Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. 176 pp ISBN 0 8229 5978 X (pb) US$17.95 Hegel, Haiti and Universal History presents one of Susa
Alter-Rights
To rethink human rights when they have become little more than hollow ideology in the hands not only of nation-states but of the UN as well requires a radical change in perspective. This article will thus look back to one of the key moments in the history of human emancipation the Haitian Revolution to ask whether it might hold, in its unfulfilled potential, implications for overcoming the contemporary impasse of human rights discourse. Unlike th…
Aristide and the Politics of Democratization
The contemporaneous publication of Alex Dupuy's The Prophet and the Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Peter Hallward's Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment in 2007 marks a watershed in contemporary Haitian Studies. Together, these two critically engaged volumes extensively document the complex and contentious path of the post-Duvalier era in Haitian politics. These volumes together describe the invention of a post-a…
Turning the Tide
This article explores the conceptual problem of popular insurgency in Haitian revolutionary historiography. Framed by fundamental questions of legitimate versus illegitimate insurgency, of the relationship between the elites and the people, and of the process of democratization and the rule of law, the article argues that the problem of popular insurgency is one way to link together analysis of past and present Haitian history and to focus on the…
Penser la Révolution haïtienne
The Idea of 1804
The Expulsion of the Negative
The Expulsion of the Negative:Deleuze, Adorno, and the Ethics of Internal Difference Nick Nesbitt (bio) To compare Deleuze with another thinker is already to proceed in counterpoint to Deleuzian practice, to refuse at some level to follow Deleuze's own method. The monograph (as applied to Bergson, Kant, Nietzsche, Spinoza, and Leibniz, to name only philosophers) is Deleuze's favored method of investigation. Deleuze does not orchestrate encounters…
Troping Toussaint, Reading Revolution
What is the meaning of the Haitian Revolution for those who look back upon it in 2004? Does it reveal progress in social justice and universal human rights, or just the opposite? This essay focuses on the problem of progress and interpretation, looking to two interpretations of the Haitian Revolution that have received little or no analysis in this regard. While Aimé Césaire's Toussaint Louverture has remained virtually unanalyzed in Césaire stud…
Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing
Imaginaire créateur et autonomie postcoloniale
La theorie critique de la decolonisation reste encore aujourd'hui victime d'un exotisme qui la cloitre et la reduit trop souvent a sa propre interiorite. Cet exotisme la presente comme le pur produit de l'histoire coloniale. En fait, la critique francophone de la colonisation faite par des intellectuels formes a Paris n'a ete possible qu'a la lumiere de la critique marxienne radicalisee par la redecouverte (francaise) de Hegel operee par Jean Wah…
African Music, Ideology and Utopia
Research in African Literatures - Volume 32, Number 2, Summer 2001
The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature
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From Louverture to Lenin
This essay argues that Aimé Césaire remained committed to a nonaligned, tricontinental Marxism well beyond his resignation from the Parti Communiste Français in 1956. It describes this commitment positively in relation to "black Jacobinism" as well as the limitations of Césaire's Leninist commitment to recuperative modernization
Alter-Rights
To rethink human rights when they have become little more than hollow ideology in the hands not only of nation-states but of the UN as well requires a radical change in perspective. This article will thus look back to one of the key moments in the history of human emancipation the Haitian Revolution to ask whether it might hold, in its unfulfilled potential, implications for overcoming the contemporary impasse of human rights discourse. Unlike th…
The Idea of 1804
Early Glissant
Early GlissantFrom the Destitution of the Political to Antillean Ultra-Leftism Nick Nesbitt (bio) Like Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon, Édouard Glissant combined a passionate commitment to the politics of decolonization with a concern to analyze the modes and structures of French colonialism, from its origins to its singular perpetuation in the form it has taken since 1946 as the so-called "Departmentalization" of the former "colony" of Martinique …
Aristide and the Politics of Democratization
The contemporaneous publication of Alex Dupuy's The Prophet and the Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Peter Hallward's Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment in 2007 marks a watershed in contemporary Haitian Studies. Together, these two critically engaged volumes extensively document the complex and contentious path of the post-Duvalier era in Haitian politics. These volumes together describe the invention of a post-a…
The Expulsion of the Negative
The Expulsion of the Negative:Deleuze, Adorno, and the Ethics of Internal Difference Nick Nesbitt (bio) To compare Deleuze with another thinker is already to proceed in counterpoint to Deleuzian practice, to refuse at some level to follow Deleuze's own method. The monograph (as applied to Bergson, Kant, Nietzsche, Spinoza, and Leibniz, to name only philosophers) is Deleuze's favored method of investigation. Deleuze does not orchestrate encounters…
Troping Toussaint, Reading Revolution
What is the meaning of the Haitian Revolution for those who look back upon it in 2004? Does it reveal progress in social justice and universal human rights, or just the opposite? This essay focuses on the problem of progress and interpretation, looking to two interpretations of the Haitian Revolution that have received little or no analysis in this regard. While Aimé Césaire's Toussaint Louverture has remained virtually unanalyzed in Césaire stud…
The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature
Book summary page views Book summary page views help Close Book summary page views help Book summary views reflect the number of visits to the book and chapter landing pages. Total views: 0 * Loading metrics...
African Music, Ideology and Utopia
Research in African Literatures - Volume 32, Number 2, Summer 2001
Imaginaire créateur et autonomie postcoloniale
La theorie critique de la decolonisation reste encore aujourd'hui victime d'un exotisme qui la cloitre et la reduit trop souvent a sa propre interiorite. Cet exotisme la presente comme le pur produit de l'histoire coloniale. En fait, la critique francophone de la colonisation faite par des intellectuels formes a Paris n'a ete possible qu'a la lumiere de la critique marxienne radicalisee par la redecouverte (francaise) de Hegel operee par Jean Wah…
Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing
Troping Toussaint, Reading Revolution
What is the meaning of the Haitian Revolution for those who look back upon it in 2004? Does it reveal progress in social justice and universal human rights, or just the opposite? This essay focuses on the problem of progress and interpretation, looking to two interpretations of the Haitian Revolution that have received little or no analysis in this regard. While Aimé Césaire's Toussaint Louverture has remained virtually unanalyzed in Césaire stud…
The Idea of 1804
The Expulsion of the Negative
The Expulsion of the Negative:Deleuze, Adorno, and the Ethics of Internal Difference Nick Nesbitt (bio) To compare Deleuze with another thinker is already to proceed in counterpoint to Deleuzian practice, to refuse at some level to follow Deleuze's own method. The monograph (as applied to Bergson, Kant, Nietzsche, Spinoza, and Leibniz, to name only philosophers) is Deleuze's favored method of investigation. Deleuze does not orchestrate encounters…
Penser la Révolution haïtienne
Turning the Tide
This article explores the conceptual problem of popular insurgency in Haitian revolutionary historiography. Framed by fundamental questions of legitimate versus illegitimate insurgency, of the relationship between the elites and the people, and of the process of democratization and the rule of law, the article argues that the problem of popular insurgency is one way to link together analysis of past and present Haitian history and to focus on the…
Alter-Rights
To rethink human rights when they have become little more than hollow ideology in the hands not only of nation-states but of the UN as well requires a radical change in perspective. This article will thus look back to one of the key moments in the history of human emancipation the Haitian Revolution to ask whether it might hold, in its unfulfilled potential, implications for overcoming the contemporary impasse of human rights discourse. Unlike th…
Aristide and the Politics of Democratization
The contemporaneous publication of Alex Dupuy's The Prophet and the Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Peter Hallward's Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment in 2007 marks a watershed in contemporary Haitian Studies. Together, these two critically engaged volumes extensively document the complex and contentious path of the post-Duvalier era in Haitian politics. These volumes together describe the invention of a post-a…
Chapter 5 The Postcolonial Event
Haiti, Hegel, and the politics of prescription
Susan Buck-Morss Hegel, Haiti and Universal History Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. 176 pp ISBN 0 8229 5978 X (pb) US$17.95 Hegel, Haiti and Universal History presents one of Susa
Revolutionary inhumanism
The article proposes a reading of Les Damnés de la terre by F. Fanon (1968a) via its original and compelling conjugation of a revolutionary, anti-colonial humanism. Insofar as Fanon’s is resolutely a humanism to come, a postcolonial ‘invention of a new species’, what I will call Fanon’s inhumanism must be grasped in its fundamentals as a complex and original critique of colonial, and defense of anticolonial, violence. The article proposes that th…
Early Glissant
Early GlissantFrom the Destitution of the Political to Antillean Ultra-Leftism Nick Nesbitt (bio) Like Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon, Édouard Glissant combined a passionate commitment to the politics of decolonization with a concern to analyze the modes and structures of French colonialism, from its origins to its singular perpetuation in the form it has taken since 1946 as the so-called "Departmentalization" of the former "colony" of Martinique …
Penser la politique avec Césaire
From Louverture to Lenin
This essay argues that Aimé Césaire remained committed to a nonaligned, tricontinental Marxism well beyond his resignation from the Parti Communiste Français in 1956. It describes this commitment positively in relation to "black Jacobinism" as well as the limitations of Césaire's Leninist commitment to recuperative modernization
The Concept in Crisis
Reading Reading Capital -- The Althusserian definition of "theory" / Alain Badiou -- Rereading the symptomatic reading / Robert J.C. Young -- Translation and event : rereading Reading Capital / Emily Apter -- To have done with alienation, or, how to orient oneself in ideology / Knox Peden -- Reading Capital in context -- A point of heresy in Western Marxism: Althusser's and Tronti's antithetic readings -- Of capital in the early 1960s / Étienne B…
Concept in Crisis
Marx after Marxism
Th e article distinguishes between two fundamental dynamics in Marx’s critique of capitalism: the humanist, cyclical, perpetually-renewed struggle between capitalists and wage labor over profi ts, wages, and the distribution of social wealth more generally and what I term a “posthuman” dialectic between humans and machines, unfolding as the unilinear historical dynamic of automation and the corresponding decreases it brings to the capacity of liv…
Deleuze, Adorno a kompozice hudební mnohosti
Th is text, fi rst published in Deleuze and Music, edited by Ian Buchanan and Marcel Swiboda (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004), pp. 54–74, Nick Nesbitt compares Th eodor W. Adorno’s negative dialectical approach with Gilles Deleuze’s antidialectical approach to the question of multiplicity and diff erentiation within music. Nesbitt concludes with a consideration of the attempts made to address the problem in the work of important twen…
The Price of Slavery
At the crossroads
Abstraction, Subjectivity, and Social Reproduction in Capitalist Slavery
The essay responds to the critiques by Gavin Arnall, Jackqueline Frost, and Grégory Pierrot of the author’s The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean (2022), focusing on the problems of abstraction, Marxist humanism, and social reproduction theory in relation to capitalist slavery and Marx’s critique of political economy
Marlene L. Daut. Awakening the Ashes
Philosophy (12 works) · Art (11 works) · History (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works)