Phenomenal blackness : Black power, philosophy, and theory / Mark Christian Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Mark Christian, 1970- author.

Series:

Thinking literature.

Chicago scholarship online.

Thinking literature

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans.

African American philosophy.

Philosophy, German.

Critical theory--History.

Critical theory.

African American aesthetics.

Criticism--United States--History.

Criticism.

American literature--African American authors--German influences.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Summary:

This unorthodox account of 1960s Black thought rigorously details the field's debts to German critical theory and explores a forgotten tradition of Black singularity. The book examines the changing interdisciplinary investments of key mid-century Black writers and thinkers, including the growing interest in German philosophy and critical theory. Mark Christian Thompson analyses this shift in intellectual focus across the post-war decades, placing Black Power thought in a philosophical context.

Contents:

The essence of the matter

The politics of Black friendship : Gadamer, Baldwin and the Black hermeneutic

The Aardvark of history : Malcolm X, language and power

Black aesthetic autonomy : Ralph Ellison, Amiri Baraka, and "literary Negro-ness"

The revolutionary will not be hypnotized : Eldridge Cleaver and Black ideology

Unrepeatable : Angela Y. Davis and Black critical theory

Black aesthetic theory.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 24, 2022).

ISBN:

9780226816432

0226816435

OCLC:

1289373104