ISBN:
9781793605955
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (141 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Philosophy of Race Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
126
Keywords:
Race awareness
Abstract:
This book argues that anatomy and biology frame our gender, sex, and class, but they do not decide our possibilities. Our life-styles are our own constructions and expressions of self-definition. Teodros Kiros supports his argument by a careful reading of the literature from both the Global South and Global North that spans figures, works, and eras from antiquity to our late modern present.
Abstract:
Intro -- Philosophy of Race -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Self in Ancient Egypt -- 2. The Self in Classical Indian Thought -- 3. Sri Aurobindo -- 4. The Self in Chinese Thought -- A. Confucius -- B. Lao Tzu -- C. Chuang Tzu -- 5. Buddhist Innovations -- 6. The Self in Greek Thought -- A. Plato -- B. Aristotle -- 7. Race, Sex, and Gender in the Quran -- 8. The Self in the Enlightenment Thinkers -- A. Zara Yacob -- B. Descartes -- C. Kant -- D. Hegel -- E. Kierkegaard -- 9. Modernity and the Sexed and Gendered Bodies -- A. Heidegger -- B. Simone de Beauvoir -- C. Foucault -- D. Judith Butler -- 10. Revolutionary Theory and Race -- A. Philosophical Rereading of Fanon, -- B. Lewis Gordon on Black Existence -- C. Paget Henry and African Ontology -- D. bell hooks, the Black Woman -- Self-Definition -- A. Self-Construction -- B. Imagination -- C. Possibilities -- D. Norms -- E. Values -- F. Reason -- G. Faith -- Conclusion: Self-Definition -- A. The Desiring Subject -- B. The Moral Subject -- C. The Actional Subject -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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