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A definite quantity of all the differences in the world

Glissant, Spinoza, and the Abyss as True Cause

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ID5811341
AuthorsAngela Humphrey Brown (Princeton University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume30
Issue2
Pages1-15
Publication date2023-01-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2155-1162 • E-ISSN: 2155-1162
PublisherUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5195/jffp.2022.1021
OpenAlexW4316036488
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited3

In a conversation with Manthia Diawara aboard the Queen Mary II in 2009, Édouard Glissant elaborated his definition of Relation, a concept that he formally presented in his book Poétique de la relation in 1990, but that emerged out of years of writing about creolization and cultural action in the Caribbean. Sitting at the ship's window, with the Atlantic Ocean crashing around him, Glissant explains that "the truth that is increasingly coming to light about Black reality in the New World is the truth of multiplicity, the truth of the step towards the Other

Creolization · African history and culture studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Colonialism, slavery, and trade

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Unique citing works2
Citations per year0,67
Citation span2023 - 2025 (3)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 2

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