Édouard Glissant, Philosopher: Heraclitus and Hegel in the Whole-World by Alexandre Leupin (review)

Leupin, a co-director of the Glissant Translation Project and the central interlocutor of Glissant’s posthumous Baton Rouge Interviews (2020) who was Glissant’s colleague at Louisiana State University, has recently emerged as a forceful voice in Glissant studies. [...]Leupin’s study is “limited to t...

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Published in:Esprit Créateur 2021-10, Vol.61 (3), p.143-144
Main Author: Fisher, Rebecka Rutledge
Format: Article
Language:eng ; fre
Subjects:
Allusion
Ghettos
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831)
Literary criticism
Literary devices
Literary translation
Philosophers
Philosophy
Postcolonialism
Readers
Translations
White supremacy
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Summary:Leupin, a co-director of the Glissant Translation Project and the central interlocutor of Glissant’s posthumous Baton Rouge Interviews (2020) who was Glissant’s colleague at Louisiana State University, has recently emerged as a forceful voice in Glissant studies. [...]Leupin’s study is “limited to the field [of] Glissant’s intimate relationship with the ‘Western’ philosophical tradition” (3). (Another mind-numbing phrase besides “ghetto” appears in the translation’s repeated use of the term “crossbreed,” which remains a highly charged, derogatory term in the American context that demands greater consideration.) Despite such limitations, just as Glissant theorizes the ouvertures that are evident across the deep nexus of Western philosophy, he easily evades the totalizing efforts that characterize Leupin’s book.
ISSN:0014-0767
1931-0234
1931-0234
DOI:10.1353/esp.2021.0039