Édouard Glissant, Philosopher: Heraclitus and Hegel in the Whole-world

Contents\nAbbreviations\nAcknowledgments\nTranslator’s Note\nChapter 1 “The immense foliage of a Louisiana oak, like a flattened palaver tree”\nChapter 2 “Repetition is not an unnecessary duplication”\nChapter 3 “I do not reject, I establish correlation”\nChapter 4 “This need to go beyond one’s own subjectivity”\nChapter 5 “Everything is in everything”\n	The Whole-Book?\n	“A circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere”\nChapter 6 “Universality has no language”\nChapter 7 “Bounds, breaks and sudden leaps”\nChapter 8 “Only the poets”\nChapter 9 “The beauty of beauty”\nChapter 10 “The dispute, one of the safest and oldest reinforcements of thought”\n	The Different Relation—The Whole-World\nChapter 11 “We do not name Relation”\nChapter 12 “Now there are only beings”\nChapter 13 “The slave is the one who does not know, but who desires with all his strength to know”\n	On History as Neurosis\nChapter 14 “I change things, through exchanging with the other, and yet without destroying or distorting myself”\nChapter 15 “And so we bring down (as if literally) the letter of the world”\nChapter 16 “Imagine a thousand birds taking flight over an African lake”\nChapter 17 “The continuity of the living is a spiral that does not fear to be interrupted”\nChapter 18 “Yes, yes, everything is alive”\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex