Dewey Edition21
Reviews"Recent philosophy of race has belabored two points: that race thinking lacks a real biological reference and that influential thinkers manifest racism. Most of the essays in this collection are refreshingly more interesting... [A] stimulating introduction.... Recommended." -- Choice, "Recent philosophy of race has belabored two points: that race thinking lacks a real biological reference and that influential thinkers manifest racism. Most of the essays in this collection are refreshingly more interesting. . . [A] stimulating introduction. . . . Recommended."-- Choice, Recent philosophy of race has belabored two points: that race thinking lacks a real biological reference and that influential thinkers manifest racism. Most of the essays in this collection are refreshingly more interesting. . . [A] stimulating introduction. . . . Recommended., "Recent philosophy of race has belabored two points: that race thinking lacks a real biological reference and that influential thinkers manifest racism. Most of the essays in this collection are refreshingly more interesting... [A] stimulating introduction.... Recommended." -Choice, "Recent philosophy of race has belabored two points: that race thinkinglacks a real biological reference and that influential thinkers manifest racism.Most of the essays in this collection are refreshingly more interesting... [A]stimulating introduction.... Recommended." -- Choice, Recent philosophy of race has belabored two points: that race thinking lacks a real biological reference and that influential thinkers manifest racism. Most of the essays in this collection are refreshingly more interesting... [A] stimulating introduction.... Recommended.
Dewey Decimal305.8
Table Of ContentPreliminary Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction Robert Bernasconi 1. Negroes Alain David 2. "One Far Off Divine Event": "Race" and a Future History in Du Bois Kevin Thomas Miles 3. Douglass and Du Bois's Der Schwartze Volksgeist Ronald R. Sundstrom 4. On the Use and Abuse of Race in Philosophy: Nietzsche, Jews, and Race Jacqueline Scott 5. Heidegger and Race Sonia Sikka 6. Ethos and Ethnos: An Introduction to Eric Voegelin's Critique of European Racism David J. Levy 7. Tropiques and Suzanne Césaire: The Expanse of Negritude and Surrealism T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting 8. Losing Sight of the Real: Recasting Merleau-Ponty in Fanon's critique of Mannoni Nigel Gibson 9. Fanon Reading (W)right, the (W)right Reading of Fanon: Race, Modernity, and the Fate of Humanism Lou Turner 10. Alienation and Its Double, Or the Secretion of Race Kelly Oliver 11. (Anti-Semitic) Subject, Liberal In/Tolerance, Universal Politics: Sartre Re-petitioned Erik Vogt 12. Sartre and the Social Construction of Race Donna Marcano 13. The Interventions of Culture: Claude Lévi-Strauss, Race, and the Critique of Historical Time Kamala Visweswaran 14. All Power to the People! Hannah Arendt's Theory of Communicative Action in a Racialized Democracy Joy James 15. Beyond Black Orpheus: Preliminary Thoughts on the Good of African Philosophy Jason M. Wirth Appendix: L'Homme de Coleur Léopold Sédar Senghor Contributors Index
SynopsisThe 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. This volume provides an indispensable critical introduction to new perspectives on thinking about race and racism., 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. This volume provides an indispensable critical introduction to new perspectives on thinking about race and racism., 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. This volume provides an indispensable critical introduction to new perspectives on thinking about race and racism., 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, L vi-Strauss, and Arendt--are also considered. This volume provides an indispensable critical introduction to new perspectives on thinking about race and racism., This volume provides an indispensable critical introduction to new perspectives on thinking about race and racism.
LC Classification NumberHT1523.R2514 2003