Penser l’au-delà du blocage colonial avec Édouard Glissant : la reconfiguration de l’Histoire comme thérapeutique

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Supervisors

Maesschalck, Marc

Faculty

Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres

Degree label

Master [120] en philosophie, à finalité spécialisée: philosophies allemandes et françaises : enjeux contemporains

Abstract

enThe aim of this thesis is to trace, through an in-depth analysis of the concept of history in Edouard Glissant's theoretical work, the movement of his thought from the local to the Divers, from the French West Indies to the Whole-World, in order to highlight its radicality in terms of decolonial perspectives. The focus is put on the various problematizations he makes of this highly polysemic concept, in order to identify the criticisms he makes of its traditional meanings as used in historiography, and finally to show the radical reconfiguration he makes of it. We follow Glissant in his symptomatological analysis of history as a problem in his locale, the Caribbean. History as trap, history as neurosis, history as alienation: three problems posed by History that lead to a blocked situation. Based on this diagnosis of a Caribbean non-history, we then examine the methods Glissant uses to explore history in an attempt to bring this history into being and thus fill this identity gap. Finally, we show that Glissant's poetics always point beyond this localized approach to history: Glissant operates a radical reconfiguration of space, time, and being that opens the way to the possibility of a renewed, decolonial being-in-the-world, being-with-the-Other, and being-with-the-land.