Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities - 9780367460679

Taylor & Francis

Reconstructing the Social Sciences and HumanitiesAntnor Firmin, Western Intellectual Tradition, and Black Atlantic Tradition\nAuthor(s): Celucien L. Joseph, Paul C. Mocombe\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367460679, 978-0367460679\nSynopsis\nJoseph Antnor Firmin [tel] was the reigning public intellectual and political critic in Haiti in the nineteenth century. 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. As an anti-racist intellectual and cosmopolitan thinker, Firmins writings challenge Western ideas of the colonial subject, race achievement, and modernitys imagination of a linear narrative based on the false premises of social evolution and development, colonial history and epistemology, and the intelle.