Through a critique of Left realism, culturalism, and pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism, Gary Wilder insists that we place questions of solidarity and temporality at the center of Left political thinking. He makes a bold case for embracing a concrete utopian politics of the possible-impossible adequate to current planetary crises.
Through a critique of Left realism, culturalism, and pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism, Gary Wilder insists that we place questions of solidarity and temporality at the center of Left political thinking. He makes a bold case for embracing a concrete utopian politics of the possible-impossible adequate to current planetary crises.
Gary Wilder is a Professor of Anthropology, History, and French and Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke, 2015) and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars (Chicago, 2005). He is co-editor of The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present (Fordham, 2018) and The Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for Life Is the Matter (Duke, 2019).
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Preface ix Introduction: The Opposite of Pessimism Is Not Optimism 1 I. Refiguring Politics 1. The Possible- Impossible: Dialectical Optics and Uncanny Refractions (Here, Now, Us) 17 2. Concrete Utopianism and Critical Internationalism: Refusing Left Realism 35 3. Practicing Translation: Beyond Left Culturalism 62 4. Of Pessimism and Presentism: Against Left Melancholy 86 Intermezzo 5. Solidarity 109 6. Anticipation 122 II. Unthinking History 7. Time as a Real Abstraction: Clock- Time, Nonsynchronism, Untimeliness 139 8. Dialectic of Past and Future 157 9. It's Still Happening Again: Ontology, Hauntology, and Ellison's Dialectics of Invisibility 191 10. A Prophetic Vision of the Past: Glissant's Poetics of Nonhistory 221 III. Anticipating Futures 11. The World We Wish to See 263 Acknowledgments 291 Notes 295 Index 363
Preface ix Introduction: The Opposite of Pessimism Is Not Optimism 1 I. Refiguring Politics 1. The Possible- Impossible: Dialectical Optics and Uncanny Refractions (Here, Now, Us) 17 2. Concrete Utopianism and Critical Internationalism: Refusing Left Realism 35 3. Practicing Translation: Beyond Left Culturalism 62 4. Of Pessimism and Presentism: Against Left Melancholy 86 Intermezzo 5. Solidarity 109 6. Anticipation 122 II. Unthinking History 7. Time as a Real Abstraction: Clock- Time, Nonsynchronism, Untimeliness 139 8. Dialectic of Past and Future 157 9. It's Still Happening Again: Ontology, Hauntology, and Ellison's Dialectics of Invisibility 191 10. A Prophetic Vision of the Past: Glissant's Poetics of Nonhistory 221 III. Anticipating Futures 11. The World We Wish to See 263 Acknowledgments 291 Notes 295 Index 363
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