What does geographic thought do to philosophy? What should philosophy do with a geographic way of thinking? John Drabinski's reading of Édouard Glissant's work—a body of work shaped through and by a geographic thinking—invites readers to consider these questions. Glissant and the Middle Passage makes clear the ways in which theoretical explorations of both modernity and possibilities of breaking with modernity's historical violence fall short when theory fails to heed to the centrality of a Caribbean geography. By extension, Drabinski's book lays out Glissant's singular interventions as vital for the completeness of these theoretical explorations. That is to say, Glissant and the Middle Passage not only makes the compelling case for placing the Caribbean—its attendant histories of Middle Passage, plantation, movement and migration—at the center of questions about and for modernity. It also argues, quite effectively, for why this endeavor requires Glissant, why the intervention of Glissant's poetics of errantry,...
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