Sartre on contingency : antiblack racism and embodiment / Mabogo Percy More.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

More, Mabogo Percy, 1946- author.

Series:

Living Existentialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism.

Contingency (Philosophy).

Anti-racism.

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.

Sartre, Jean-Paul.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]

Summary:

Exploring the implications of Sartre's existentialism for the problem of racism, a prominent African philosopher provides the ontological basis for understanding the situation of a black person in an antiblack world.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

References

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Sartre Now

Racism Today

Chapter 1: Philosophy and Racism

Western Philosophers and Antiblack Racism

Sartre's Existentialism

Chapter 2: Race and Racism

Antiblack Racism

Black People as Problem

Denial of Black Humanity

Exclusion from the Ethical

Justification of Violence against Blacks

Sartre and Racism

Chapter 3: Sartre's Phenomenological Ontology

Sartre's Ontology

Being-in-Itself and Being-for-Itself

Human Nature (Essence)

Facticity

Bad Faith

The Look (Gaze)

Chapter 4: The Concept of Contingency

Contingency in Traditional Philosophy

Contingency in Sartre's Philosophy

The Body and Contingency

Chapter 5: The Body, Racism, and Contingency

Contingency and Racism

Strategies to Overcome Contingency

The Black Person as the Other

Naturalistic Argument

Psychological Argument

Religious Argument

Immanent and Transcendental Strategies

Chapter 6: Ontic Situations

Contingency in Concrete Situations

Anti-Semitism

Responses to Anti-Semitism

Blacks in America

Blacks in Africa-Negritude

Chapter 7: Sartre's Solutions

Ontological Solution

The Radical Conversion

Freedom: The Absolute Value

Contingency and Morality

Sartre's Political Solution

Socialism

Revolutionary Violence

Critique of Sartre

Chapter 8: Racial Solidarity

Solidarity

Sartre on Solidarity

Seriality

Fused (Active) Group

Solidarity Contra Appiah

Chapter 9: Sartre and Africana Existential Philosophy

Frantz Fanon

Chabani N. Manganyi

The Phenomenology of the Black Body

Transcending Racism

Lewis R. Gordon

Bad Faith and the Contingency of the Body.

Chapter 10: Conclusion: The Meaning of Jean-Paul Sartre Today

Sartre's Legacy

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-5381-5705-5

OCLC:

1263025421