![]() ii Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature 130 Musical Stimulacra Literary Narrative and the Urge to Listen Ivan Delazari 131 Dante’s Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection William Franke 132 Ethnicity and Kinship in North American and European Literatures Silvia Schultermandl and Klaus Rieser 133 Pluralism, Poetry, and Literacy A Test of Reading and Interpretive Techniques Xavier Kalck 134 Visual Representations of the Arctic Imagining Shimmering Worlds in Culture, Literature and Politics Edited by Markku Lehtimäki, Arja Rosenholm, and Vlad Strukov 135 Homemaking for the Apocalypse Domesticating Horror in Atomic Age Literature & Media Jill E. Anderson 136 Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities Anténor Firmin, Western Intellectual Tradition, and Black Atlantic Tradition Edited by Celucien L. Joseph and Paul C. Mocombe 137 T. He is the author of many influential books, such as The Theory of Phenomenological Structuralism Haitian Epistemology and Identity and Ideology in Haiti. He is a former visiting professor of Philosophy and Sociology at Bethune Cookman University, an assistant professor of Philosophy and Sociology at West Virginia State University, and the president/CEO of The Mocombeian Foundation, Inc. Paul C. Mocombe (PhD) is a Haitian philosopher and sociologist. ![]() His books From Toussaint to Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought (2013), and Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions: Discourse on Race, Religion, and Freedom (2013) received Honorable Mention at The Pan African International 2014 Book Awards. His recent books include Revolutionary Change and Democratic Religion: Christianity, Vodou, and Secularism (2020), a 2020 “Important Political Book-PoliticoTech Awards Finalist,” and Theologizing in Black: On Africana Theological Ethics and Anthropology (2020). He is the author of numerous academic books and peer-reviewed articles. ![]() He holds a PhD in Literary Studies from the University of Texas at Dallas and a PhD in Theology and Ethics from the University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa). He is an associate professor of English at Indian River State College. Joseph is an intellectual historian, literary scholar, and theologian. It reexamines the importance of his thought and legacy, and its relevance for the twenty-first century’s culture of humanism, and the continuing challenge of race and racism. ![]() Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities is the first full-length book devoted to Joseph Anténor Firmin. Firmin articulated an alternative way to study global historical trajectories, the political life, human societies and interactions, and the diplomatic relations and dynamics between the nations and the races. As an anti-racist intellectual and cosmopolitan thinker, Firmin’s writings challenge Western ideas of the colonial subject, race achievement, and modernity’s imagination of a linear narrative based on the false premises of social evolution and development, colonial history and epistemology, and the intellectual evolution of the Aryan-White race. He was the first “Black anthropologist” and “Black Egyptologist” to deconstruct the Western interpretation of global history and challenge the ideological construction of human nature and theories of knowledge in the Western social sciences and the humanities. I Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities Joseph Anténor Firmin (1850–1911) was the reigning public intellectual and political critic in Haiti in the nineteenth century. ![]()
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