A minor philosophy of world
From the anthropological illusion to Relation in area studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4940393 |
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| Authors | Travis Workman (University of Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 31-48 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0921374019900696 |
| OpenAlex | W3001796085 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This article discusses Édouard Glissant's theory of Relation as a minor philosophy of world that breaks from the spatialization of time and the anthropological cosmopolitanism of Enlightenment thought and Cold War area studies. The first part connects two dominant Cold War area studies discourses-modernization theory and cultural anthropology-to Immanuel Kant's Anthropology and Michel Foucault's reading of it, showing how area studies discourses participate in an old Enlightenment problem of what Foucault calls the "anthropological illusion." The article then connects Glissant's criticism of generalization and his idea of the "world" to the critique of area studies, showing how the spatiotemporality of Glissant's Relation disarticulates the area studies framework and its mode of racializing the poetics of world history, world literature, and world culture
Aesthetics · Art · Cosmopolitanism · Criticism · Dialectic · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Politics · Reading (process · Relation (database · Sociology · Anthropology · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Travel Writing and Literature
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Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Habits of the heart
Structure of Social Action
Japan as Number One Lessons for America
Imagining Japan
Toward a General Theory of Action
Poetics of relation
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils
| Highly cited | No |
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