Race / edited by Robert Bernasconi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernasconi, Robert.

Series:

Blackwell readings in Continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

viii, 309 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Summary:

Although historians and literary theorists have long participated in discussions about race, it is only recently that philosophers have returned to the topic. The main focus of their attention has been the question of what one means by race now that its biological basis has been discredited, and under what conditions a non-essentialist concept of race can be sustained. This volume provides an introduction to the concept of race within philosophy. It gives an overview of the most important contributions by continental philosophers to the understanding of race - focusing on Kant, Du Bois, Senghor, and Sartre - as well as presenting a general review of recent philosophical discussions. In addition, it moves the debate forward by including new contributions by some of today's leading theorists.

Contents:

pt. I. Kant and the Invention of Race. 1. Who Invented the Concept of Race? Kant's Role in the Enlightenment Construction of Race / Robert Bernasconi. 2. On the Use of Teleological Principles in Philosophy (1788) / Immanuel Kant

Pt. II. Du Bois and the Conservation of Races. 3. Du Bois's Anthropological Notion of Race / Tommy Lott. 4. The Conservation of Races / W. E. Burghardt Du Bois

Pt. III. Nardal and Race Consciousness. 5. Paulette Nardal, Race Consciousness and Antillean Letters / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. 6. The Awakening of Race Consciousness / Paulette Nardal

Pt. IV. The Negritude Movement. 7. Black Orpheus / Jean-Paul Sartre. 8. Negritude and Modernity or Negritude as a Humanism for the Twentieth Century / Leopold Senghor

Pt. V. Fanon and the Phenomenology of Race. 9. Fanon, Merleau-Ponty and the Difference of Phenomenology / Jeremy Weate. 10. The Lived Experience of the Black / Frantz Fanon

Pt. VI. Dumont and the Structuralist Analysis of Race. 11. Is there a Structuralist Analysis of Racism? On Louis Dumont's Philosophy of Hierarchy / Kamala Visweswaran. 12. Caste, Racism and 'Stratification' Reflections of a Social Anthropologist / Louis Dumont

Pt. VII. The Politics of Race. 13. Race, Multiculturalism and Democracy / Robert Gooding-Williams. 14. Conversational Break: A Reply to Robert Gooding-Williams / Judith Butler

Pt. VIII. The Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment. 15. Toward a Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment / Linda Martin Alcoff. 16. The Invisibility of Racial Minorities in the Public Realm of Appearances / Robert Bernasconi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0631207821

063120783X

OCLC:

44084098