Chapter 3 Reinventing Europe
Joseph Anténor Firmin and the Legacy of the Nineteenth Century
dc.contributor.author | Rath, Gudrun | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-04T14:07:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2025-02-04T14:07:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98200 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities is the first full-length book devoted to Joseph Anténor Firmin. It reexamines the importance of his thought and legacy, and its relevance for the twenty-first century’s culture of humanism, and the continuing challenge of race and racism. | en_US |
dc.language | English | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought::QDHR Western philosophy from c 1800 | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies::JBSL11 Indigenous peoples | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBA Relating to Indigenous peoples | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Forensic Anthropology,Haitian Revolution,De Gobineau,Black Atlantic Tradition,Toussaint Louverture,Victor Schoelcher,Haitian Intellectual,Scientific Racism,Michael Dash,Comte De Buffon,Paul Topinard,Racist Killing,Polygenistic Origin,Transnational Entanglements,Juridical Rhetoric,Atlantic Sphere,Black Public Intellectual,Mulattoes,La Forme,Jean Price Mars,Human Remains,Afrocentric Paradigm,Multiple Developmental Trajectories,Multilineal Evolution,State Of Haiti | en_US |
dc.title | Chapter 3 Reinventing Europe | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | Joseph Anténor Firmin and the Legacy of the Nineteenth Century | en_US |
dc.type | chapter | |
oapen.identifier.doi | 10.4324/9781003167037-5 | en_US |
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb | en_US |
oapen.relation.isPartOfBook | d1bbbb11-deb5-49d8-b0ab-51edd1f4104a | en_US |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9780367460679 | en_US |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9780367764678 | en_US |
oapen.imprint | Routledge | en_US |
oapen.pages | 16 | en_US |
oapen.remark.public | Funder name: University of Arts Linz |