{"product_id":"engagements-with-aim-csaire-jason-allen-paisant-9780192867223","title":"Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits","description":"Aimé Césaire is due a major critical reinterpretation and that is exactly what this book carries out. Through an in-depth grasp of the trajectory and core significance of Césaire's work, Jason Allen-Paisant highlights a set of links it makes between 'spirit, ' 'poetry, ' and 'knowing'. These explications, setting Césaire's work in relation to a rigorously accounted for set of influences, reframe how we understand his writings, enhancing their philosophical, rather than merely political, aspects. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eEngagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits\u003c\/em\u003e is about more than Negritude (which has come to mean something less than a deep poetic sensibility with its own aspirational aesthetics and metaphysics, and rather something more like a fantasy-ridden iteration of pan-Africanism). It shows an Aimé Césaire deeply relevant to today: to the crises of ecological collapse, capitalist dystopias, and ideologies predicated upon fear and the threat of foreigners; and to contemporary chatter around interspecies collaboration and the need to rethink the entrepreneurial subject of Western political thought. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRecasting Césaire's work is not just a matter of transforming a significant figure. It is also about rethinking legacies. This book is an engagement in the truest sense--the work of a contemporary Black poet who expounds the ways in which Césaire's work articulates for him a new politics of the self.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jason Allen-Paisant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192867229\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192867223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Jason Allen-Paisant","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45180583313663,"sku":"9780192867223","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5fbe6f7c-1187-4481-99a9-3268bc18d5b5.jpg?v=1712898185","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/engagements-with-aim-csaire-jason-allen-paisant-9780192867223","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}