The World as Abyss: The Caribbean and Critical Thought in the Anthropocene

by David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh

This book is about a distinctive 'abyssal' approach to the crisis of modernity. In this framing, influenced by contemporary critical Black studies, another understanding of the world of modernity is foregrounded - a world violently forged through the projects of Indigenous dispossession, chattel slavery and colonial world-making. Modern and colonial world-making violently forged the 'human' by dividing those with ontological security from those...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1915445302
• ISBN13: 9781915445308
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: University of Westminster Press
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"