Taking Glissant's Philosophy into Social Sciences?

Titre: Taking Glissant's Philosophy into Social Sciences?; Callaloo
Titre du volume: 4
Volume: 36
Date: Fall 2013
Issn: 01612492
Résumé: The article examines the philosophy of Martinican author Édouard Glissant in the context of social sciences. Glissant's approach to linking political engagement with poetic thought and aesthetics based on his essay "Philosophie de la Relation" is discussed. The views of the author on development work and its political implications are tackled. His concepts of impossible partnership, economic opacity and the unknowable are also tackled.
Creator: Heidi Bojsen
Subject: AESTHETICS; ESSAY (Literary form); GLISSANT, Edouard, 1928-2011; MARTINIQUE authors; PHILOSOPHY; POETICS; SOCIAL development; SOCIAL sciences
pages: 995-1013
short title: Callaloo