The Theory of Haiti
The Black Jacobins and the Poetics of Universal History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4195902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David A Scott (0000-0001-9083-580X), David Scott (0000-0002-4176-0466, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 35-51 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1534-6714 • E-ISSN: 0799-0537 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/07990537-2826443 |
| OpenAlex | W2164364864 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 25 |
This essay inquires into the uses of Haiti and its revolution as emblematic for contemporary theory. It raises a question about the new “philosophic” construction of Haiti—and its revolution—as an originary or exemplary moment of “human rights,” less to impugn universality as such than to caution that it is always important to ask about the ideological construction of the theory-problems in our scholarship. The essay then turns to a discussion of the problem-space that makes intelligible why and how C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins is constructed as an exploration of the Haitian Revolution as a question of “universal history.”
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Ideology · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Universality (dynamical systems · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
Kant
Avengers of the New World
German Philosophy 1760–1860
The standard of "civilization" in international society
Life in a Haitian Valley.
World Revolution, 1917–1936
Re-Figuring Hayden White
Black Liberator
Hegel's Recollection
Along This Way
That Event, This Memory
The Gift of the Past
Romanticism and the Rise of History
Antinomies of Slavery, Enlightenment, and Universal History
The Futures of Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Haiti and the anthropological imagination
The Black Napoleon. The Story of Toussaint Louverture
Dahomey
Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History
Peasants and Capital
The Negro in the New World
Theory in Anthropology
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,7 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |