Unmasking the Big Bluff of Legitimate Governance and So-Called Independence
Creolizing Rousseau through the Reflections of Anna Julia Cooper
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18964469 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Anna Gordon (0000-0002-6352-1255, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-25 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Philosophy of Race (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2165-8684 • E-ISSN: 2165-8692 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/critphilrace.6.1.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W3150063226 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article explains what is meant by the creolizing of ideas and then demonstrates it through exploring a political observation about political illegitimacy made by eighteenth-century Genevan social and political thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau and creolized when the nineteenth-century African-American educator and social critic Anna Julia Cooper argued that the ideal of independence that lay at the core of political doctrines of republican self-governance relied on forms of willful blindness that cloaked the ongoing dependence of all human beings on one another. In conclusion, the article considers what Cooper's expansion of Rousseau's insight and creolized readings of political philosophy imply for our pursuit of just political institutions today
Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European Political History Analysis · Law · Political Theory and Influence · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |