Existence in Black : an anthology of Black existential philosophy / edited and with an introduction by Lewis R. Gordon.

Other author Gordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo), 1962-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 1997.
Descriptionxviii, 328 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction : Black existential philosophy / Lewis R. Gordon -- African and Afro-Caribbean existential philosophies / Paget Henry -- Self-transformation in American blacks : the Harlem Renaissance and black theology / Roy D. Morrison II -- On the reading of riddles : rethinking Du Bosian "double consciousness" / Ernest Allen, Jr. -- Existential dynamics of theorizing black invisibility / Lewis R. Gordon -- Return from the United States : what I learned about the black problem / Jean-Paul Sartre, translated with comparative notes on the problem in 1995 / by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting -- White normativity and the rhetoric of equal protection / Robert St. Martin Westley -- Race, life, death, identity, tragedy and good faith / Naomi Zack -- Toni Morrison at the movies : theorizing race through Imitation of life (for Barbara Siegel) / Gary Schwartz -- Of property : on "captive" "bodies", hidden "flesh" and colonization / G.M. James Gonzalez -- Toting technology : taking it to the streets / Bobby R. Dixon -- On disappointment in the black context / Bill E. Lawson -- Rastafarianism and the reality of dread / Paget Henry --
Contents Nietzsche on blacks / William A. Preston -- The concept of double vision in Richard Wright's The outsider : fragmented blackness in the age of nihilism / Floyd W. Hayes III -- Fragmentation, rece, and gender : building solidarity in the postmodern era / Patricia Huntington -- Existence, identity, and liberation / Robert Birt -- Black feminism : liberation limbos and existence in gray / Joy Ann James -- Liberalism and the politics of emancipation : the black experience / George Carew -- Cornel West as pragmatist and existentialist / Clarence Sholé Johnson -- On violence in the struggle for liberation / Howard McGary -- The fight with Covey / Bernard R. Boxill.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [291]-312) and index.
LCCN 96024896
ISBN0415914515 (cl)
ISBN0415914507 (pb)

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Joyner General Stacks B936 .E85 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold