Richard A. Jones

Postmodern Racial Dialectics

Philosophy Beyond the Pale

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Produktbeschreibung

Postmodern Racial Dialectics is a collection of ten essays on African American philosophy. Addressing issues as disparate as why there are no graduate programs in philosophy at the more than one hundred traditionally black colleges and universities in the U.S.-to conceptions of Black utopianism-to the nature of postmodern revolutions, these essays are beyond the bounds of traditional racial discourse. The essays are dialectical in the sense that they are conversations between personal histories, between ideologies, and between changing ways that the races talk to one another. The book is postmodern in that it is beyond modernity's linear logic. Postmodern Racial Dialectics is also a political entreaty for African Americans to be wary of conventional ways of thinking, and to begin thinking transgressively beyond narrowly prescribed conceptions from both sides of the color line.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780761869481
• ISBN-10: 0761869484
• Artikelnr.: 48380343

Autorenporträt

Richard A. Jones taught philosophy at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He served as Co-Coordinator of the Radical Philosophy Association and was an associate editor of the Radical Philosophy Review. Jones is also the author of The Black Book: Wittgenstein and Race.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 1.Introduction 2.Philosophy For Us By Us: Philosophy FUBU
3.The Value of Academic Philosophy for Black Folks 4.Diseases of the
Imagination 5.The Politics of Black Utopia 6.Prolegomena to Any Future
Moral Philosophy 7.Horrorism in the Theater of Cruelty 8.The Technology of
Immortality, the Soul, and Human Identity 9.Racial Authenticity
10.Postmodern Revolutions Index