
Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism
Lewis R. Gordon(Author)
Humanity Books (Publisher)
Published in 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
236 pages
978-1-57392-534-1 (ISBN)
Description
Lewis Gordon presents the first detailed existential phenomenological investigation of antiblack racism as a form of Sartrean bad faith. Bad faith, the attitude in which human beings attempt to evade freedom and responsibility, is treated as a constant possibility of human existence. Antiblack racism, the attitude and practice that involve the construction of black people as fundamentally inferior and subhuman, is examined as an effort to evade the responsibilities of a human and humane world. Gordon argues that the concept of bad faith militates against any human science that is built upon a theory of human nature and as such offers an analysis of antiblack racism that stands as a challenge to our ordinary assumptions of what it means to be human.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amherst
United States
Publishing group
Prometheus Books
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
278 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57392-534-1 (9781573925341)
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Persons
Lewis R. Gordon is Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut, Visiting Professor at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, Nelson Mandela Visiting Professor at Rhodes University, South Africa, European Union Visiting Chair in Philosophy at Universite Toulouse Jean Jaures, France, and Writer-in-Residence at Birkbeck School of Law. His most recent book is What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (2015). Mabogo Percy More is a former professor of philosophy at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and is currently professor of philosophy at the University of Limpopo, South Africa. He is the author of many journal articles and his latest book is Steve Biko: Philosophy, Identity and Liberation (HSRC Press, 2017). He was awarded the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement award by the Caribbean Philosophical Association in 2015.