Critique of Black Reason
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator’s Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Becoming Black of the World -- 1. The Subject of Race -- 2. The Well of Fantasies -- 3. Difference and Self-Determination -- 4. The Little Secret -- 5. Requiem for the Slave -- 6. The Clinic of the Subject -...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham
Duke University Press
[2017]
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Mbembe, Achille, 1957-, Critique of Black reason] (2018) (Tshaka, R. S.)
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| Series/Journal: | A John Hope Franklin Center Book
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| Further subjects: | B
Race
Social aspects
B Difference (Philosophy) B Whites Race identity B Slavery Moral and ethical aspects B Race Philosophy B Blacks Race identity B Black people Race identity B PHILOSOPHY / Generals B Race awareness Moral and ethical aspects B Racism |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9780822363323 |
| Summary: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator’s Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Becoming Black of the World -- 1. The Subject of Race -- 2. The Well of Fantasies -- 3. Difference and Self-Determination -- 4. The Little Secret -- 5. Requiem for the Slave -- 6. The Clinic of the Subject -- Epilogue. There Is Only One World -- Notes -- Index In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trade to the present—to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the intellectual consequences of the reality that Europe is no longer the world's center of gravity while mapping the relations among colonialism, slavery, and contemporary financial and extractive capital. Tracing the conjunction of Blackness with the biological fiction of race, he theorizes Black reason as the collection of discourses and practices that equated Blackness with the nonhuman in order to uphold forms of oppression. Mbembe powerfully argues that this equation of Blackness with the nonhuman will serve as the template for all new forms of exclusion. With Critique of Black Reason, Mbembe offers nothing less than a map of the world as it has been constituted through colonialism and racial thinking while providing the first glimpses of a more just future |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 0822373238 |
| Access: | Restricted Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9780822373230 |