%0 Journal Article
%T Hegel and Dessalines: Philosophy and the African Diaspora
%A Deborah Jenson
%J New West Indian Guide
%D 2010
%I Brill
%X [First paragraph] Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History. Susan Buck-Morss. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. xii + 164 pp. (Paper US$ 16.95) Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment. Nick Nesbitt. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. x + 261 pp. (Paper US$ 22.50) These two books have relaunched universal history ¨C not without controversy¨C as a dominant trope in the fields of colonial history and postcolonial theory. They have also highlighted tensions around the application of a Hegelian philosophical genealogy to Haiti, the first self-emancipated black postcolony, the state ghettoized as ˇ°the poorest country in the Western hemisphere,ˇ± and now the embattled zone of recovery from the catastrophic earthquake of January 2010.
%K Haiti
%K social history
%K historiography
%K philosophy
%K book reviews
%U http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/nwig/article/view/7707