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Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities: Anténor Firmin, Western Intellectual Tradition, and Black Atlantic Tradition

Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities: Anténor Firmin, Western Intellectual Tradition, and Black Atlantic Tradition

Joseph, Celucien L.
Mocombe, Paul C.

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Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Biographies GeneralLiterary CriticismGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 036746067X
ISBN13: 9780367460679
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 7 2021
Pages: 246
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Joseph Anténor Firmin (1850-1911) was the reigning public intellectual and political critic in Haiti in the nineteenth century. He was the first Black anthropologist and Black Egyptologist to deconstruct the Western interpretation of global history and challenge the ideological construction of human nature and theories of knowledge in the Western social sciences and the humanities. As an anti-racist intellectual and cosmopolitan thinker, Firmin's writings challenge Western ideas of the colonial subject, race achievement, and modernity's imagination of a linear narrative based on the false premises of social evolution and development, colonial history and epistemology, and the intellectual evolution of the Aryan-White race. Firmin articulated an alternative way to study global historical trajectories, the political life, human societies and interactions, and the diplomatic relations and dynamics between the nations and the races.

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