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

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