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One of the first readings, in English or French, of Edouard Glissant as an ethical theorist Brings together Caribbean and Latin American ethics to provide a new concept of responsibility that addresses inequities rooted in colonial projects Re-envisions contemporary human rights practice based on the duties entailed in the decolonial (third-generation) rights claims made by the dispossessed Connects Glissant's claim of a 'right to opacity' to ethical bearings, and by doing so presents a path for human rights and decolonial movements to come together What do we in the West owe those who grow our food, sew our clothes and produce our electronics? And what have we always owed one another, but forgotten, avoided, or simply disregarded? Looking back on nearly a century of colonial war and genocide, in 1990 the poet and philosopher douard Glissant appealed directly to his readers, calling them to re-orient their lives in service of the political struggles of their time: 'You must choose your bearing'. Informed by the prayer camps at Standing Rock, and presenting Glissant alongside Stuart Hall, Emmanuel Levinas, Simone Weil, Enrique Dussel, Gloria Anzald a and W. E. B. Du Bois, this book offers an urgent ethics for the present - an ethics of risk, commitment and care that together form a new sense of decolonial responsibility.

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"""In this ethically bracing and philosophically wide-ranging intervention, Benjamin Davis calls on douard Glissant to help reimagine human rights for a politics that requires more awareness of and responsibility for global hierarchy and oppression. Human rights are not beyond reproach but they are also not unsalvageable, if they are reforged as credible tools for emancipation, as Glissant and others have foreseen."" -Samuel Moyn, Yale University"

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Benjamin Davis is a Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies, Saint Louis University, USA. He is the author of Simone Weil's Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) and the co-editor of Creolizing Critical Theory: New Voices in Caribbean Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024).

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