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Book SynopsisThis book thematizes the mystical figure of the abyss by examining the abyss as the dialectical process of the self’s reconstruction followed by its dispossession. It traces such process in Neoplatonic mysticism, German idealism, and Afro-Caribbean philosophy with the end of politicizing the mystical figure from the standpoint of coloniality.
Trade Review"The Decolonial Abyss offers a decolonial political theology that carefully considers but seeks to avoid pitfalls often found in political theologies and philosophies that are based or propose views grounded on absolute negativity, perpetual deconstruction, or on apparent radical views that collapse into Eurocentric conservatisms. It is a required reading for anyone interested in political theology, liberation theologies, decolonial thinking, as well as Caribbean literature and philosophical thought." -- -Nelson Maldonado-Torres Rutgers University "The abyss provides a fascinating lens through which to politicize the mystical on the one hand and theologize the post- and decolonial on the other. Each of these is a worthy project on its own and even more compelling in relation to the other... A sophisticated, readable, and important book." -- -Mary-Jane Rubenstein Wesleyan University
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Staring into the Abyss 1. Situating the Self in the Colonial Abyss 2. Tracing the Abyss: Via Negativa 3. The Restless Negative of Hegel: Otherness and the Way of Despair 4. The Groundlessness of Being: Fragmentation, Duration, and Re-collection 5. Reconstructing the Groundless Ground Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
