Race and racism in continental philosophy / edited by Robert Bernasconi ; with Sybol Cook.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernasconi, Robert.

Anderson, Sybol Cook.

Series:

Studies in Continental thought.

Studies in Continental thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism.

Race.

Continental philosophy.

Philosophers--Europe--Attitudes.

Philosophers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction/ Robert Bernasconi

Negroes/ Alain David

"One far off divine event" : "race" and a future history in Du Bois/ Kevin Thomas Miles

Douglass and Du Bois's der schwartze Volksgeist/ Ronald R. Sundstrom

On the use and abuse of race in philosophy : Nietzsche, Jews, and race/ Jacqueline Scott

Heidegger and race/ Sonia Sikka

Ethos and ethnos : an introduction to Eric Voegelin's critique of European racism/ David J. Levy

Tropiques and Suzanne Cesaire : the expanse of negritude and surrealism/ T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Losing sight of the real : recasting Merleau-Ponty in Fanon's critique of Mannoni/ Nigel Gibson

Fanon reading (W)right, the (W)right reading of Fanon : race, modernity, and the fate of humanism/ Lou Turner

Alienation and its double; or, The secretion of race/ Kelly Oliver

(Anti-semitic) subject, liberal in/tolerance, universal politics : Sartre re-petitioned/ Erik Vogt

Sartre and the social construction of race/ Donna Marcano

The interventions of culture : Claude Levi-Strauss, race, and the critique of historical time/ Kamala Visweswaran

All power to the people! Hannah Arendt's theory of communicative action in a racialized democracy/ Joy James

Beyond Black Orpheus : preliminary thoughts on the good of African philosophy / Jason M. Wirth

Appendix: what the black man contributes / Leopold Sedar Senghor

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07245-5

0-253-11067-X

OCLC:

173289724