ISBN:
0253215900
,
0253342236
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vii, 316 p)
,
25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Studies in Continental thought
Parallel Title:
Print version Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Continental philosophy
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Race
;
Racism
;
Philosophers Attitudes
;
Continental philosophy
;
Philosophers ; Europe ; Attitudes
;
Race
;
Racism
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The 15 original essays in Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy explore the resources that continental philosophy brings to debates about contemporary race theory and investigate the racism of some of Europe's most important thinkers. Attention is devoted to the influence of the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Wright, and Frantz Fanon. Questions about race in European philosophy -- especially in the work of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lévi-Strauss, and Arendt -- are also considered. Thi
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; Introduction; One: Negroes; Two: "One Far Off Divine Event":"Race" and a Future History in Du Bois; Three: Douglass and Du Bois'sDer Schwarze Volksgeist; Four: On the Use and Abuse of Race inPhilosophy: Nietzsche, Jews, and Race; Five: Heidegger and Race; Six: Ethos and Ethnos:An Introduction to Eric Voegelin's Critique ofEuropean Racism; Seven: Tropiques and Suzanne Césaire:The Expanse of Negritude and Surrealism; Eight: Losing Sight of the Real: RecastingMerleau-Ponty in Fanon's Critique of Mannoni
Description / Table of Contents:
Nine: Fanon Reading (W)right, the (W)rightReading of Fanon: Race, Modernity, and theFate of HumanismTen: Alienation and Its Double; or, The Secretion of Race; Eleven: (Anti-Semitic) Subject, Liberal In/Tolerance,Universal Politics: Sartre Re-petitioned; Twelve: Sartre and the Social Constructionof Race; Thirteen: The Interventions of Culture:Claude Lévi-Strauss, Race, and the Critique ofHistorical Time; Fourteen: All Power to the People!Hannah Arendt's Theory of CommunicativePower in a Racialized Democracy; Fifteen: Beyond Black Orpheus:Preliminary Thoughts on the Good of AfricanPhilosophy
Description / Table of Contents:
Appendix: What the Black Man ContributesContributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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