Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt

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Is there a way of being human that could invite people away from today's models of violence and consumerism Looking forward to a new, increasingly creolized century, in 1997 the Martinican poet and philosopher douard Glissant asked, 'Do we have the right and the means to live another dimension of humanity But how'

Building on the defense of human rights he outlined in Choose Your Bearing, Benjamin P. Davis traces figures of 'the human' and 'humanity' in W. E. B. Du Bois, douard Glissant, Sylvia Wynter and Edward Said. He concludes with a reflection on Hannah Arendt's post-war correspondence with Karl Jaspers, which offers lessons for a new humanism as we witness ongoing wars today.

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Benjamin P. Davis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Languages & Culture at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Simone Weil's Political Philosophy and Choose Your Bearing: douard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics.