Treatise on the Whole-World

Treatise on the Whole-World - The Glissant Translation Project

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Publisher's Synopsis

This challenging book covers a wide range of subject matter, but all linked together through the key ideas of diversity and 'Relation'. It sees our modern world, shaped by immigration and the aftermath of colonisation, as a multiplicity of different communities interacting and evolving together, and argues passionately against all political and philosophical attempts to impose uniformity, universal or absolute values. This is the 'Whole-World', which includes not only these objective phenomena but also our consciousness of them. Our personal identities are not fixed and self-sufficient but formed in 'Relation' through our contacts with others. Glissant constantly stresses the unpredictable, 'chaotic' nature of the world, which, he claims, we must adapt to and not attempt to limit or control.

Book information

ISBN: 9781789627251
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Imprint: Liverpool University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 844.914
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 168
Weight: -1g