{"product_id":"engagements-with-aime-cesaire-thinking-with-spirits-9780192867223","title":"Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jason Allen-Paisant\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Semiotics \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAimé 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46289431330967,"sku":"9780192867223","price":10510.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780192867223.webp?v=1769303159","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/engagements-with-aime-cesaire-thinking-with-spirits-9780192867223","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}