| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Haiti's Hope and Dilemma: Development Crisis and the Role of Religion -- 1. Global Thinking and Thinking Globally: Jacques Roumain within a Transnational Public Sphere and Context -- 2. World of Jacques Roumain and the Predicament of Haitian Political and Civil Society -- 3. Le Mal du Pays: Roots of Haiti's Economic Woes, Underdevelopment, and Dysfunctional Civil Society (Part I) -- 4. Le Mai du Pays: The Crisis of Haitian Intellectuals, "Sick Religion," and the Ecological Crisis (Part II) -- 5. Vodou Does No Wrong! Roumain among European Anthropologists and before a Western Audience -- pt. II Frontiers of Development: Fraternal Unity, the Role of Faith, and the Future of Haiti and the Human Race -- 6. In Praise of Reason and Science: Rethinking Roumain's Religious Sensibility and Marxist Rhetoric -- 7. Rhetoric of Suffering, Hope, and Redemption: A Rhetorical and Politico-Theological Analysis of Manuel as Peasant-Messiah and Redeemer in Masters of the Dew -- 8. "Living Together in This World": Roumain's Vision of Radical Change, Social Development, and Economic Justice (Part I) -- 9. "Living Together in This World": Toward an Ethics of Relationality and a Politics of Mutual Reciprocity (Part II) -- Conclusion: Hope for the Future: Haiti and the Global World -- pt. III Historical Documents, Correspondences, and Photographs -- Appendix 1 Brief Chronology of Jacques Roumain -- Appendix 2 Lettre a Joseph Jolibois -- Appendix 3 Le Peuple et l'Elite -- Appendix 4 "American Promises Fallacious, Head of Student Body Charges" -- Appendix 5 Lettre de Roumain a Tristan Remy -- Appendix 6 Introduction: Necessite de la Theorie -- Appendix 7 "Manifeste a la Jeunesse" -- Appendix 8 Deuxieme Congres International des Ecrivains pour la Defense de la Culture -- Appendix 9 Sur la Liberte de l'Ecrivain -- Appendix 10 Jacques Roumain's Speech at the YMCA Banquet-Reception -- Appendix 11 Is Poetry Dead? -- Appendix 12 Le Medecin Rural, ou La Science au Service du Peuple -- Appendix 13 Radio-conference du 9 mai 1938: "Croyances religieuses populaires en Haiti" -- Appendix 14 Letter to Paul Rivet #1 -- Appendix 15 Letter to Paul Rivet #2 -- Appendix 16 "Official Delegation": Langston Hughes on Jacques Roumain -- Appendix 17 Major Studies on Jacques Roumain -- Appendix 18 Major Publications in Modern Haitian Thought (1900 -- 1960) -- Appendix 19 Photographs of Jacques Roumain and Family -- Appendix 20 6015 d-ebene: Roumain's handwritten manuscript to Nancy Cunard -- Appendix 21 "Madrid" to Ramon Sender -- Appendix 22 Roumain's Handwritten Letter to Nancy Cunard -- Appendix 23 Roumain's Manisfesto: "La Prochaine recolte en Haiti et les devoirs qui incumbent aux Partisans de la C.S.L.A." |
| Summary |
Thinking in Public provides a probing and provocative meditation on the intellectual life and legacy of Jacques Roumain. As a work of intellectual history, the book investigates the intersections of religious ideas, secular humanism, and development within the framework of Roumain's public intellectualism and cultural criticism embodied in his prolific writings. The book provides a reconceptualization of Roumain's intellectual itineraries against the backdrop of two public spheres: a national public sphere (Haiti) and a transnational public sphere (the global world). Second, it remaps and reframes Roumain's intellectual circuits and his critical engagements within a wide range of intellectual traditions, cultural and political movements, and philosophical and religious systems. Third, the book argues that Roumain's perspective on religion, social development, and his critiques of religion in general and of institutionalized Christianity in particular were substantially influenced by a Marxist philosophy of history and secular humanist approach to faith and human progress. Finally, the book advances the idea that Roumain's concept of development is linked to the theories of democratic socialism, relational anthropology, distributive justice, and communitarianism. Ultimately, this work demonstrates that Roumain believed that only through effective human solidarity and collaboration can serious social transformation and real human emancipation take place |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 6, 2017) |
| Subject |
Roumain, Jacques, 1907-1944 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Roumain, Jacques, 1907-1944 -- Political and social views
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| SUBJECT |
Roumain, Jacques, 1907-1944 fast |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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Political and social views
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781498203821 |
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1498203825 |
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