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Irreparable Evil explores the legacy of slavery and its moral and political implications, offering a nuanced intervention into debates over reparations.

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Engaging with moral philosophy, social theory, and postcolonial thinking, David Scott boldly argues that New World slavery was an 'absolute evil,' or irreparable harm, characterized by the destruction of African lifeworlds, for which a reparative response, both moral and material, is necessary. He does so through lucid prose and timely arguments that relate the Caribbean past to our contemporary present in persuasive and provocative ways. -- Gary Wilder, author of Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity

Table of Contents
Prologue: On the Devastation of Lifeworlds and Forms of Life
Part I
1. The Idea of a Moral and Reparatory History
Part II
2. Incomparable Evil
3. Incommensurable Evils
Part III
4. Slavery’s Evil Lifeworld
5. Evil Enrichment
Epilogue: On Irreparability
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Irreparable Evil

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      Publisher Columbia University Press
      Published 20 February 2024
      ISBN-13 9780231213059
      978-0231213059
      ISBN-10 0231213050
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      Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Irreparable Evil explores the legacy of slavery and its moral and political implications, offering a nuanced intervention into debates over reparations.

      Trade Review
      Engaging with moral philosophy, social theory, and postcolonial thinking, David Scott boldly argues that New World slavery was an 'absolute evil,' or irreparable harm, characterized by the destruction of African lifeworlds, for which a reparative response, both moral and material, is necessary. He does so through lucid prose and timely arguments that relate the Caribbean past to our contemporary present in persuasive and provocative ways. -- Gary Wilder, author of Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity

      Table of Contents
      Prologue: On the Devastation of Lifeworlds and Forms of Life
      Part I
      1. The Idea of a Moral and Reparatory History
      Part II
      2. Incomparable Evil
      3. Incommensurable Evils
      Part III
      4. Slavery’s Evil Lifeworld
      5. Evil Enrichment
      Epilogue: On Irreparability
      Acknowledgments
      Notes
      Index

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