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Hassanaly Ladha is Associate Professor in Literatures, Cultures, and Languages at the University of Connecticut, USA.
Hassalany Ladha brilliantly demonstrates that the central role of aesthetics in Hegel's political philosophy extends to his concepts of freedom and subjectivity, allowing for a new reading of the slave/master dialectics and of Africa itself. The book offers crucial new developments that should radically influence all debates on slavery and Africa at the time of Enlightenment as well as post-colonial investigations. * Marie-Helene Huet, M. Taylor Pyne emerita Professor of French, Princeton University, US * Hassanaly Ladha's richly-detailed and wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective for contemporary readers on Hegel's image of Africa, exploring with a fresh eye the relevance of his philosophy for current discussions of race, art, language, history and politics. * Dr. Allen Speight, Boston University, USA * Ladha pursues Hegel's architectonic from aesthetic trace to international border, along the way positing the centrality of the slave and slavery, of non-European foreignness, to his historical and political philosophies. Beyond merely refuting Hegel's ostensible racism, the book reframes him as an exemplary thinker for the postcolonial present and future. * Emilio Spadola, Director, Program in Middle East and Islamic Studies, Colgate University, USA *
