The Paradox of Freedom
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-5116-3 (ISBN)
At the generative center of Patterson’s work has been a fundamental inquiry into the internal dynamics of slavery as a mode of social and existential domination. What is most provocatively significant in his work on slavery is the way it yields a paradoxical insight into the problem of freedom – namely, that freedom was born existentially and historically from the degradation and parasitic inhumanity of slavery and was as much the creation of the enslaved as of their enslavers.
The Paradox of Freedom elucidates the pathways by which Patterson has both uncovered the relationship between domination and freedom and engaged intellectually and publicly with the struggles for equality and decolonization among descendants of the enslaved. It will be of great interest to students and scholars throughout the humanities and social sciences and to anyone interested in the work of one of the most important public intellectuals of our time.
David Scott is Ruth and William Lubic Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Orlando Patterson is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION: ORLANDO PATTERSON AND THE PARADOX OF FREEDOM’S BIRTH FROM SLAVERY
The Paradox of Slavery and Freedom
The Existential Birth of Freedom from Slavery
The Historical Birth of Freedom from Slavery
Dialogical Generations, Intellectual Traditions, and Problem-Spaces
Notes
THE PARADOX OF FREEDOM
A Mother’s Project
Years of Decolonization
Kingston College
University College of the West Indies
The Repairer of the Breach
The Rise of the Social Sciences
The London School of Economics
West Indian Fiction
The Children of Sisyphus
The Sociology of Slavery
The Caribbean Artists Movement
An Absence of Ruins
Returning Home
Not Much of a Joiner
Die the Long Day
Arrival at Harvard
Engaging Black America
Making Public Policy in Socialist Jamaica
Slavery and Social Death
The Paradox of Freedom
The Ordeal of Integration
Rituals of Blood
The Confounding Island
The Perspective of an Historical Sociologist
Notes
INDEX
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.04.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 522 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5095-5116-6 / 1509551166 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5095-5116-3 / 9781509551163 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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