Heidi Bojsen

Taking Glissant's Philosophy into Social Sciences?: A Discussion of the Place of Aesthetics in Critical Development Discourse

Roger Toumson describes Glissant as combattant—struggling against oppressive hegemonic concepts and regimes of thought. By blending philosophical concerns with poetics, Glissant’s work also contributes to a combat—through the strategy of “puttinginto-Relation” (mise-en-Relation)—against disciplinary territories and rigid epistemological regimes of thought. In Philosophie de la Relation Glissant describes in his own way how he links and relays political engagement with poetic thought and aesthetics: