Abstract

AGUIRRE AGUIRRE, Carlos Sergio. Humanism and “calibanism” in Aimé Césaire. Estud. filos. práct. hist. ideas [online]. 2019, vol.21, n.2, pp.1-22. ISSN 1851-9490.

In this paper we analyze the different dimensions of humanism that can be read in the writing of the caribbean thinker Aimé Césaire. The hypothesis that guides us is that Césaire operates a critical humanism where a denunciation of the dehumanizing and racist investitures of the western notion of "man" is imbricated with the search for his own anti-colonial enunciation. For this, we affirm that his writing conveys an exercise that we define as "calibanesque" critically capable of appropriating the modern nomenclature of "humanity" in order to affect and challenge his senses and hegemonic values. Sporadically, this constitutes a cardinal assumption of the césarean anti-colonial reading that takes place in Discourse about colonialism, Notebook of a return to the native country, and A tempest. This strategy also implies the possibility of objecting the writing and discourse from a western monopoly while reviewing the problem of colonized bodies from the Caliban´s figure-metaphor.

Keywords : Aimé Césaire; Calibanism; Calibán; Dialectics; Anti-colonial.