Haiti as non-place: The Racialized Revolution and the Hegelian Philosophy of History
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Hegel, Haiti, Universal History, Revolution, FanaticismAbstract
In this article we will analyze the possible epistemological criteria which, in the context of the Hegelian philosophy of world history, circumscribe the long Haitian revolutionary process in a narrative non-place. Contrary to the European political, economic and cultural imaginary of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, which saw the Haitian Revolution as an event that directly or indirectly impacted on global geopolitical transformations, abolitionist discourses and trade flows across the Atlantic, Hegel seems at first to neglect the specificity of the process, although, as we argue in this context, it is possible to trace the reasons for a deliberate exclusion that responds to the precise ideas of freedom and terror that precede, and thus determine, the place of the Haitian Revolution in world history.
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