Donna Jones (Berkeley) - The Promise of Decline

Race and the Rhetoric of Historical Pessimism in the Interwar Years

Part of the The Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths, University of London Lecture Series 20/21 on “Critiquing Violence Today”.

Donna Jones is Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley and the author of The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism and Modernity (Columbia UP, 2010). She is currently working on two two projects, The Ambiguous Promise of European Decline: Race and Historical Pessimism in the Era of the Great War and The Tribunal of Life: Reflections on Vitalism, Race and Biopolitics.

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