Glissant rejects linear logic as a colonial epistemological imposition

Evidence

Throughout the body of his work Glissant has combined the discipline of analytical thought with a determined refusaI to accept the logic of Iinear sequences as the only productive logic. For a country whose history is composed of ruptures, to accept this linearity would imply a continued blindness to its own crazed history, its temps éPerdu, and acceptance of the “YVestern European episternological principles that daim this history as its destiny. The structure of Poetics of Relation is based more on associative principles than on any steady progress toward irrefutable proof; it is an enactment of its own poetics. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 26

Categorization

• XREF: The anti-linear, rupture-responsive form maps onto the reader’s ‘detour’ concept — a concrete practice (associative structure as method) rather than mere theory. — connects to: Colonial conquest preceded and founded Cartesian rational thought; Colonial philosophy’s categories are inextricable from instruments of dominion — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 287; Glissant makes imagination, relation, and poetics the engines of historical change — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 24

Broader Connections

• Glissant makes imagination, relation, and poetics the engines of historical change #expands (0.82) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 24
• Colonial philosophy’s categories are inextricable from instruments of dominion #corroborates (0.78) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 287
• Colonial conquest preceded and founded Cartesian rational thought #corroborates (0.75)