Empire, Modernity, Critique

Twentieth-Century Critical Thought in the Global South: Primary Sources and Contexts

Bloomsbury Press, 2022

This anthology brings together political, aesthetic, and philosophical writing from across the non-European and postcolonial world. It includes writing from South East Asia, South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is the first anthology to bring these texts together, and, in many cases, the first time that many of these writings have been considered properly as ‘philosophy’. This book is a necessity for any scholar working on political or aesthetic theory from the Global South, but it is also an invaluable resource to students and people new to the field. Each excerpt is accompanied by a brief introduction to provide historical and political context, and the collection highlights ongoing conversations occurring between these texts and their European and Anglo-American philosophical counterparts. The book is not only a complement to other Bloomsbury anthologies in European philosophy, but is the first of its kind to offer a more complete picture of the global circulation of philosophical, aesthetic, and political thought in the twentieth century.