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Criticism of modernity from the Caribbean: black readings of the (white) philosophy of history

Abstract

This paper reflects, first, on the Eurocentric condition of the theories of secularization and their disregard of the incidence of the conquest, colonialism and slavery on the rise of Modernity. By looking at some key definitions of the Caribbean anti-colonialist essay (C. L. R. James, Depestre, Fanon) which point at the “whiteness” inherent in the modern philosophy of history that justified the coexistence of slavery with the emancipation of man, we then posit the “racialization” of Progress as one of the most evident modulations of the paradoxical dynamics secularization/sacralization which characterizes Modernity. Lastly, we observe that while the Afro-Caribbean anti-colonialist essay has recourse to a Marxist body of thought which enables it to deconstruct Western myths (Progress, Race, the “universal” ideals of the French Revolution), beliefs return, however, in literary form through Negritude’s imaginary of emancipation and the political (secularized, resacralized) experience of the African diaspora as revolutionary subject.

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