Creative Rebelliousness and Pragmatism
Or, Leaving
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:12th Nov '26
£85.00
This title is due to be published on 12th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A leading voice in contemporary pragmatism presents a 21st-century interpretation of the tradition from the point of view of oppressed populations.
A leading voice in contemporary pragmatism presents a 21st-century presentation and interpretation of the tradition from the point of view of oppressed populations.
Lee A. McBride III urges us to analyze the epistemological boundaries and intervening logics that ensnare us in this order of things and breach them. This powerful and eye-opening approach takes its impetus from Leonard Harris’s philosophy born of struggle.
By connecting different philosophical perspectives, McBride offers fresh ways to think about philosophies of struggle. He helps us to size up and challenge those existing epistemological systems that reinforce and reproduce oppression; he proffers a tenable pragmatic naturalized epistemology from which one can make assertive fallibilist claims; he helps us to reenvision our bonds and ties to other beings and the land; he describes the role of immersive affective experiences, poetry, and Dionysian poiesis (making) in leaving the existing systems of knowledge. Each foray develops a way of (re)imagining our ways of being and the norms and structures within which we live. They allow McBride to draw out conceptual and imaginative tools that may assist us in creative rebelliousness, in leaving and shaping a future beyond the asylum walls.
Beautifully written, McBride’s book extends the insurrectionist philosophical project in an important direction, expanding the conception of how and where insurrection needs to happen.
The present world seems lost to its future. Climate change, wars, the ongoing and renewed oppression of diverse peoples and ideas call for resistance and something more. McBride seeks to provide more by showing how philosophy and art can find a way to stand outside the circle of our benighted moment to imagine possible futures. Creative Rebelliousness and Pragmatism delivers what Leonard Harris’s insurrectionist philosophy demands: ‘the sort of spirit/ethos needed to escape conceptual backwaters and asylums, retain a sense of hope, negate conventional categories and valuations, and “leap into an abyss.”’ McBride shows the potential of philosophical pragmatism to contribute to critical efforts to understand the legacy of colonization and racism and to imagine new categories, valuations, identities, communities and cultures that may help the world find its way. -- Scott L. Pratt, Professor and Department Head of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, US
Tracking the subversive freedoms that underwrite creative worlds, Lee A. McBride offers a theory of poetic departure—one that centres the black aesthetic vocabularies that move us through and beyond normative scholarly and epistemological methods. -- Katherine McKittrick author of Dear Science and Other Stories
“Exquisitely written and painstakingly argued, Creative Rebelliousness and Pragmatism establishes that poiesis is itself a window of opportunity for arriving at warranted insights. McBride’s arguments make poiesis and moral imperatives compatible without the sinkhole of metaphysics and dogmatic moral imperatives standing on its opposite shore . . . This is a tour de force that gives terms like naturalism,
empiricism and pragmatism a welcomed new meaning.”
ISBN: 9781350594272
Dimensions: 218mm x 146mm x 18mm
Weight: 340g
176 pages