Creolizing Hannah Arendt

Creolizing Hannah Arendt is the first book to explore the implications of creolizing Hannah Arendt (1906-75) and thinking for: action, liberation, freedom, power, democracy, identity, racism, prejudice, totalitarianism, immigration, judgment, revolution, decolonial politics, the human, and the modern traditions of Caribbean political thought, Africana philosophy, and existential phenomenology.

Contributors include: Cristina Beltrán, Roger Berkowitz, Angélica Maria Bernal, Robert Eaglestone, Stephen Nathan Haymes, Paget Henry, Thomas Meagher, Dana Francisco Miranda, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Niklas Plaetzer, Neil Roberts.

Marilyn Nissim-Sabat is professor emeritus of philosophy at Lewis University and the author of Neither Victim Nor Survivor. She is presently working on a book to be titled Arendt and Husserl: Phenomenology, Totalitarianism, and the Banality of Evil. Nissim-Sabat has published book chapters on the work of thinkers including Lewis Gordon, Richard Wright, and Herman Melville as well as written numerous book reviews and articles on philosophy and psychoanalysis.

Neil Roberts is John B. McCoy and John T. McCoy professor of Africana studies, political theory, and the philosophy of religion at Williams College, where he also serves as associate dean of the faculty. He has published widely on modern and contemporary political theory, politics in literature, and theories of freedom. His books include Freedom as Marronage and A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass. How to Live Free in an Age of Pessimism is his next monograph.