The Quest for Community and Identity

Critical Essays in Africana Social Philosophy
Herausgeber: Birt, Robert E

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays engages two of the most fundamental social and political issues of our time: community and identity. Wrestling with the perplexities of these two issues within the Africana world, the contributors delve into the influences of a postmodern world of globalization with outdated, crumbling forms of identity and sociality. In the wake of such an order, new forms of identity and community must be established.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780742512924
• ISBN-10: 0742512924
• Artikelnr.: 21795422

Autorenporträt

Edited by Robert E. Birt - Contributions by Rod Bush; George Carew; Kevin Cokley; Arnold Farr; Patrick Goodin; Lewis R. Gordon; Leonard Harris; Clevis Headley; Paget Henry; Joy James; Richard A. Jones; Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Eddy Souffrant

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Part 1: Exploring Perplexities of Identity Chapter 2 1. Racism,
Historical Ruins, and the Task of Identity Formation Chapter 3 2. To Be or
Not to Be Black: Problematics of Racial Identity Chapter 4 3.
Postmodernism, Narrative, and the Question of Black Identity Chapter 5 4.
Du Bois and Appiah: The Politics of Race and Racial Identity Part 6 Part 2:
In Quest of Community: Sociality and Situated Freedom Chapter 7 5. Of the
Quest for Freedom As Community Chapter 8 6. Sociality and Community in
Black: A Phenomenological Essay Part 9 Part 3: Historical Crises of
Identity and Community Chapter 10 7. Visions of Transcendent Community in
the Works of Toni Morrison Chapter 11 8. Paulette Nardal, Race
Consciousness, and Antillean Letters Chapter 12 9. The Revival of Black
Nationalism and the Crisis of Liberal Universalism Chapter 13 10.
Commodification and Existence in African American Communities Part 14 Part
4: Liberalism, Postmodernism, and the Quest for Community Chapter 15 11.
Black Philosophy As a Challenge to Liberalism Chapter 16 12. Democracy,
Transitional Justice, and Postcolonial African Communities Chapter 17 13.
Community: What Type of Entity and What Type of Moral Commitment? Chapter
18 14 Theorizing Black Community