Böcker av Nick Nesbitt

Assesses the limitations of the literature on capitalism and slavery since Eric Williams in light of Marx's key concept of the social forms of labour, wealth, and value. To do so, Nick Nesbitt systematically reconstructs for the first time Marx's analysis of capitalist slavery across the three volumes of Capital.

Combining research, political philosophy, and intellectual history, this book explores the invention of universal emancipation - both in the context of the Age of Enlightenment and in relation to certain key figures and trends in contemporary political philosophy.

Arguing that the aesthetic practices of 20th-century French Caribbean writers reconstruct an historical awareness once lost amid colonial exploitation, Nesbitt shows how these writers use the critical force of the aesthetic imagination to transform the parameters of the Antillean experience.