Unmasking the Big Bluff of Legitimate Governance and So-Called Independence: Creolizing Rousseau through the Reflections of Anna Julia Cooper

This article explains what is meant by the creolizing of ideas and then demonstrates it through exploring a political observation about political illegitimacy made by eighteenth-century Genevan social and political thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau and creolized when the nineteenth-century African-Ameri...

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Published in:Critical philosophy of race 2018-01, Vol.6 (1), p.1-25
Main Author: Gordon, Jane Anna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Black people
Communities
Governance
Humans
Men
Political institutions
Polities
Slaves
Women
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Summary:This article explains what is meant by the creolizing of ideas and then demonstrates it through exploring a political observation about political illegitimacy made by eighteenth-century Genevan social and political thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau and creolized when the nineteenth-century African-American educator and social critic Anna Julia Cooper argued that the ideal of independence that lay at the core of political doctrines of republican self-governance relied on forms of willful blindness that cloaked the ongoing dependence of all human beings on one another. In conclusion, the article considers what Cooper's expansion of Rousseau's insight and creolized readings of political philosophy imply for our pursuit of just political institutions today.
ISSN:2165-8684
2165-8692
DOI:10.5325/critphilrace.6.1.0001