{"product_id":"verdant-infernoa-scabby-black-brazilian-9781915103086","title":"Verdant Inferno\/A Scabby Black Brazilian","description":"\u003cb\u003eA classic of Brazilian literature is twinned with an overheated tract in which tropical delirium swallows up Western philosophy, attacking the decolonial question with poetic ferocity.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA classic of Brazilian literature is twinned with an overheated tract in which tropical delirium swallows up Western philosophy. Both attack the decolonial question with poetic ferocity, ignited by the moment when colonialist rationality meets its limits in the \"magnificent disorder\" of the Amazon jungle. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDescribed in Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's foreword as \"no longer an \u003ci\u003einterpretation of\u003c\/i\u003e Brazil but an \u003ci\u003einterpenetration with\u003c\/i\u003e Brazil,\" Jean-Christophe Goddard's strange theory-fiction plunges Western philosophy into the great American schizophrenia, where its ordered categories are devored by uncontainable contaminations--first and foremost the rainforest itself, a \"monstrosity unapproachable by the cogito.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1664, the Portuguese Bento de Espinosa wrote of his terrifying hallucination of \"a scabby black Brazilian.\" But rather than a vision of \"the Other,\" the dream figure was a frightful glimpse of Bento's own duplicity. Upon adopting the \"clean white nickname\" of Benedict de Spinoza, the philosopher cut ties with his homeland and its colonial misadventures, repudiating this specter that flees along the lines of migration: \"Spinoza is American ... the journey is intensive.\" And in his wake, a cannibalized cast of conceptual personae are sucked into Goddard's Pernambucan delirium: Franny Deleuze, Dina Levi-Strauss, Chaya Ohloclitorispector, Galli Mathias... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe rainforest also precipitates a deregulation of the senses in \u003ci\u003eVerdant Inferno\u003c\/i\u003e, Alberto Rangel's classic 1904 work of Brazilian literature. In Rangel's astonishing tales, this \"poet-engineer\" sent into the dark interior as a state representative records his encounters in a style that shimmers between objective documentary and visionary limit experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Urbanomic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/12\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781915103086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160","brand":"Alberto Rangel, Jean-Christophe Goddard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43180716687541,"sku":"9781915103086","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_1ba98a61-827e-493d-923e-cf1e7cf7c402.jpg?v=1697518276","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/verdant-infernoa-scabby-black-brazilian-9781915103086","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}