Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy

The 15 original essays in Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy explore the resources that continental philosophy brings to debates about contemporary race theory and investigate the racism of some of Europe's most important thinkers. Attention is devoted to the influence of the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Wright, and Frantz Fanon. Questions about race in European philosophy especially in the work of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lévi-Strauss, and Arendt are also considered. This volume provides an indispensable critical introduction to new perspectives on thinking about race and racism.

Robert Bernasconi is Moss Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He is author of two books on Heidegger and numerous articles on continental philosophy, political philosophy, and race theory. He is the editor of Race and co-editor (with Tommy Lott) of The Idea of Race. His books with Indiana University Press include Re-reading Levinas and Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings.

Sybol Cook is a Provost's Distinguished Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Memphis.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

1

(7)

Robert Bernasconi

Negroes

8

(11)

Alain David

``One Far Off Divine Event'': ``Race'' and a Future History in Du Bois

19

(13)

Kevin Thomas Miles

Douglass and Du Bois's Der Schwarze Volksgeist

32

(21)

Ronald R. Sundstrom

On the Use and Abuse of Race in Philosophy: Nietzsche, Jews, and Race

53

(21)

Jacqueline Scott

Heidegger and Race

74

(24)

Sonia Sikka

Ethos and Ethnos: An Introduction to Eric Voegelin's Critique of European Racism

98

(17)

David J. Levy

Tropiques and Suzanne Cesaire: The Expanse of Negritude and Surrealism

115

(14)

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Losing Sight of the Real: Recasting Merleau--Ponty in Fanon's Critique of Mannoni

129

(22)

Nigel Gibson

Fanon Reading (W)right, the (W)right Reading of Fanon: Race, Modernity, and the Fate of Humanism

151

(25)

Lou Turner

Alienation and Its Double; or, The Secretion of Race

176

(20)

Kelly Oliver

(Anti-Semitic) Subject, Liberal In/Tolerance, Universal Politics: Sartre Re-petitioned

196

(18)

Erik Vogt

Sartre and the Social Construction of Race

214

(13)

Donna-Dale Marcano

The Interventions of Culture: Claude Levi-Strauss, Race, and the Critique of Historical Time

227

(22)

Kamala Visweswaran

All Power to the People! Hannah Arendt's Theory of Communicative Power in a Racialized Democracy

249

(19)

Joy James

Beyond Black Orpheus: Preliminary Thoughts on the Good of African Philosophy

268

(19)

Jason M. Wirth

Appendix: What the Black Man Contributes

287

(16)

Leopold Sedar Senghor

Contributors

303

(4)

Index

307

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