Edouard Glissant Quotes on Time
Edouard Glissant was a Martinican philosopher, novelist, and poet, one of the founding figures of Caribbean philosophy, and the most original theorist of creolization in late-twentieth-century thought. This page collects quotes attributed to Edouard Glissant on the topic of time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Edouard Glissant:
“Whole-world thinking is what comes after empire.”
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“Pythagore Celat went around loudly trumpeting "we" though there was not one soul who could guess what he meant by it. (beginning of "Trace of the Time Before")”
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“beginning of Introduction: From a presentation distant in space and time”
From the persistent myth of the paradise islands to the deceptive appearance of overseas departments, it seemed that the French West Indies were destined to be always in an unstable relationship with their own reality. It is as if these countries were condemned to never make contact with their true nature, since they were paralyzed by being scattered geographically and also by one of the most pern -
“For me, the arrival is the moment where all the components of humanity ... consent to the idea that it is possible to be one and multiple at the same time; that you can be yourself and the other; that you can be the same and the different.”
One World in Relation: Édouard Glissant in Conversation with Manthia Diawara(2011) | Manthia Diawara, "One World in Relation: Édouard Glissant in Conversation with Manthia Diawara" (2011), p.6. Diawara, Manthia (2011) . "One World in Relation: Édouard Glissant in Conversation with Man