Race

This volume provides an introduction to the concept of race within philosophy. It gives an overview of the most important contributions by continental philosophers to the understanding or race (focusing on Kant, Du Bois, Senghor, Sartre and Schutz) as well as presenting a general review of recent philosophical discussions.

Robert Bernasconi is Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He has published numerous articles and collections including The Question of Language in Heidegger's History of Being (1985), and Heidegger in Question (1993).

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

1

(8)

Part I Kant and the Invention of Race

9

(48)

Who Invented the Concept of Race? Kant's Role in the Enlightenment Construction of Race

11

(26)

Robert Bernasconi

On the Use of Teleological Principles in Philosophy (1788)

37

(20)

Immanuel Kant

Part II Du Bois and the Conservation of Races

57

(36)

Du Bois's Anthropological Notion of Race

59

(25)

Tommy Lott

The Conservation of Races

84

(9)

W. E. Burghardt Du Bois

Part III Nardal and Race Consciousness

93

(20)

Paulette Nardal, Race Consciousness and Antillean Letters

95

(12)

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

The Awakening of Race Consciousness

107

(6)

Paulette Nardal

Part IV The Negritude Movement

113

(54)

Black Orpheus

115

(28)

Jean-Paul Sartre

Negritude and Modernity or Negritude as a Humanism for the Twentieth Century

143

(24)

Leopold Senghor

Part V Fanon and the Phenomenology of Race

167

(36)

Fanon, Merleau-Ponty and the Difference of Phenomenology

169

(15)

Jeremy Weate

The Lived Experience of the Black

184

(19)

Frantz Fanon

Part VI Dumont and the Structuralist Analysis of Race

203

(32)

Is there a Structuralist Analysis of Racism? On Louis Dumont's Philosophy of Hierarchy

205

(13)

Kamala Visweswaran

Caste, Racism and `Stratification' Reflections of a Social Anthropologist

218

(17)

Louis Dumont

Part VII The Politics of Race

235

(30)

Race, Multiculturalism and Democracy

237

(23)

Robert Gooding-Williams

Conversational Break: A Reply to Robert Gooding-Williams

260

(5)

Judith Butler

Part VIII The Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment

265

(35)

Toward a Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment

267

(17)

Linda Martin Alcoff

The Invisibility of Racial Minorities in the Public Realm of Appearances

284

(16)

Robert Bernasconi

Index

300

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