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100 1 $aJones, Donna V.,$d1964-
245 14 $aThe racial discourses of life philosophy :$bnégritude, vitalism, and modernity /$cDonna V. Jones.
246 30 $aNégritude, vitalism, and modernity
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$c©2010.
300 $avi, 231 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aNew directions in critical theory
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: The Resilience of Life --- 1. On the Mechanical, Machinic, and Mechanistic -- 2. Contesting Vitalism -- 3. Bergson and the Racial Elan Vital -- 4. Négritude and the Poetics of Life.
520 $a"In the early twentieth century, the life philosophy of Henri Bergson summoned the élan vital, or vital force, as the source of creative evolution. Bergson also appealed to intuition, which focused on experience rather than discursive thought and scientific cognition. Particularly influential for the literary and political Négritude movement of the 1930s, which opposed French colonialism, Bergson's life philosophy formed an appealing alternative to Western modernity, decried as 'mechanical, ' and set the stage for later developments in postcolonial theory and vitalist discourse. Revisiting narratives on life that were produced in this age of machinery and war, Donna V. Jones shows how Bergson, Nietzsche, and the poets Leopold Senghor and Aimé Césaire fashioned the concept of life into a central aesthetic and metaphysical category while also implicating it in discourses on race and nation. Jones argues that twentieth-century vitalism cannot be understood separately from these racial and anti-Semitic discussions. She also shows that some dominant models of emancipation within black thought become intelligible only when in dialogue with the vitalist tradition. Jones's study strikes at the core of contemporary critical theory, which integrates these older discourses into larger critical frameworks, and she traces the ways in which vitalism continues to draw from and contribute to its making."--Jacket.
520 $a"In the early twentieth century, the life philosophy of Henri Bergson summoned the élan vital, or vital force, as the source of creative evolution. Bergson also appealed to intuition, which focused on experience rather than discursive thought and scientific cognition. Particularly influential for the literary and political Négritude movement of the 1930s, which opposed French colonialism, Bergson's life philosophy formed an appealing alternative to Western modernity, decried as 'mechanical,' and set the stage for later developments in postcolonial theory and vitalist discourse. Revisiting narratives on life that were produced in this age of machinery and war, Donna V. Jones shows how Bergson, Nietzsche, and the poets Leopold Senghor and Aimé Césaire fashioned the concept of life into a central aesthetic and metaphysical category while also implicating it in discourses on race and nation. Jones argues that twentieth-century vitalism cannot be understood separately from these racial and anti-Semitic discussions. She also shows that some dominant models of emancipation within black thought become intelligible only when in dialogue with the vitalist tradition. Jones's study strikes at the core of contemporary critical theory, which integrates these older discourses into larger critical frameworks, and she traces the ways in which vitalism continues to draw from and contribute to its making." -- Book jacket.
650 0 $aLife in literature.
650 0 $aRace in literature.
650 0 $aVitalism in literature.
650 0 $aNegritude (Literary movement)
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650 4 $aVitalism in literature.
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650 17 $aBellettrie.$2gtt
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650 07 $aÜberlegenheit.$0(DE-588)4264065-9$2gnd
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650 7 $aLebensphilosophie$xLiteratur.$2idsbb
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651 7 $aWeisse.$2swd
648 7 $aGeschichte 1930-1939.$2swd
648 4 $aGeschichte 1930-1939.
830 0 $aNew directions in critical theory.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=020216845&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=020216845&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
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