Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (270 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Translator's Introduction -- Preface to the English- Language Edition -- Prologue: Parallels and Meridians -- Introduction: For a Thought from the South -- Mediterranean -- CHAPTER 1 Going Slow -- CHAPTER 2 Of Land and Sea -- Homo currens -- CHAPTER 3 Thinking the Frontier -- CHAPTER 4 The Fundamentalism of the Rat Race -- The Friction of Thought -- CHAPTER 5 Albert Camus: The Need for Southern Thought -- CHAPTER 6 Pier Paolo Pasolini: Life as Oxymoron -- Other Essays on the Mediterranean -- CHAPTER 7 Europe and Southern Thought -- CHAPTER 8 Cardinal Knowledge -- CHAPTER 9 Against All Fundamentalisms: The New Mediterranean -- CHAPTER 10 Thinking the Mediterranean -- Notes -- Index.
In this engaging and provocative book, which ranges effortlessly between the fields of sociology, political science, philosophy, cultural anthropology, and literature, Cassano offers a critique of normative models of modernization derived from Eurocentric and North Atlantic paradigms, while claiming that autonomous paths to modernity exist in the Mediterranean and the so-called Global Souths. CassanoGs rethinking of the South seeks to reverse the NorthGSouth relationship: Gnot to think of the South in light of modernity, but rather to think of modernity in light of the South.G In this work, the South is no longer a belated, imperfect, incomplete, and not-yet North but the space of a differential, autonomous identity to be recovered and rediscovered. Thus, Southern Thought not only exemplifies a brilliant critique of Occidentalism but represents a valiant attempt to restore agency and dignity to the heritage and legacies of Southern civilizations and cultures. Four additional essays supplement this English translation of the original Italian book.