Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt
Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt
by Benjamin P. Davis
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1399548581 | 281 Pages | PDF | 2.28 MB
by Benjamin P. Davis
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1399548581 | 281 Pages | PDF | 2.28 MB
"Another Humanity is a brilliant book—its brilliance lies in its humility."
—Massimiliano Tomba, author of Insurgent Universality
Looking forward to a new, increasingly creolized century, in 1997 the Martinican poet and philosopher Édouard 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, in Another Humanity Benjamin P. Davis traces the figures of "humanity" and "the human" in W. E. B. Du Bois, Édouard Glissant, Sylvia Wynter, and Edward Said. He concludes with a reflection on Hannah Arendt's post-war correspondence with Karl Jaspers, which offers philosophical and personal lessons for a new humanism as we witness ongoing wars today.