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In a collection of fifteen essays, Robert Bernasconi argues for a holistic approach to race that integrates the concrete experience of racism faced by individuals into the study of institutional, structural, and systemic racism. Drawing on the work of Frantz Fanon, the late Sartre, and Michel Foucault, and studying such figures like Ottobah Cugoano, Anténor Firmin, and W. E. B. Du Bois, Bernasconi's volume challenges the philosophical canon an...

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A survey of the historical development of the idea of race, this anthology offers pre-twentieth century theories about the concept of race, classic twentieth century sources reiterating and contesting ideas of race as scientific, and several philosophically relevant essays that discuss the issues presented. A general Introduction gives an overview of the readings. Headnotes introduce each selection. Includes suggested further readings.

Robert Bernasconi explores in the context of Heidegger's thought a number of questions of far-reaching concern: what is the role of literary examples within philosophy? Is art dead? What is the relation of art to nature? Is there a place for the idea of a "people" in art and literary theory, and in philosophy? Is the history of philosophy to be written as a narrative? What is the status of ethics within philosophy? What place does philosophy g...

A survey of the historical development of the idea of race, this anthology offers pre-twentieth century theories about the concept of race, classic twentieth century sources reiterating and contesting ideas of race as scientific, and several philosophically relevant essays that discuss the issues presented. A general Introduction gives an overview of the readings. Headnotes introduce each selection. Includes suggested further readings.

This study is not an attempt to render an account of Heidegger's history of Being, that history is not a story and cannot be retold as one. This book is concerned with the insight that introduces us to the history of Being and the transformation in our re

A convenient and accessible guide to Levinas, first published in 2002, which emphasises the interdisciplinary significance of his work.

These essays provoke new responses to the work of the eminent Frenchphilosopher Emmanuel Levinas through an analysis of how the problematics of reading, deconstruction, feminism, and psychotherapy complicate and deepen Levinas's accountof responsibility. The re-reading presented here continues and expands on thelong-standing debate between Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Published in English forthe first time are two key texts in this debate: "Wh...

This book brings together the most interesting and far-reaching responses to the work of Levinas in three key areas: contemporary feminism, psychotherapy and Levinas's relation to other philosophers. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information.Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.

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.

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.

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The How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. These books use excerpts from the major texts to explain essential topics, such as Jean-Paul Sartre's pioneering thoughts on individual freedom, which served as a foundation for his role as the political champion of the oppressed. Jean-Paul Sartre is best known as the pre-eminent philosopher of individua...

A convenient and accessible guide to Levinas which emphasises the interdisciplinary significance of his work.

Jean-Paul Sartre is best known as the preeminent philosopher of individual freedom. He is the one who told us that we are totally free. Robert Bernasconi shows how the early existentialist Sartre became the political champion of the oppressed. Extracts are drawn from the full range of Sartre's writings: the novel Nausea, the drama No Exit, the political essay Communists and Peace, as well as the major philosophical texts, Being and Nothingness...

The 15 original essays in Race and Racism in Continental Philosophyexplore the resources that continental philosophy brings to debates aboutcontemporary race theory and investigate the racism of some of Europe's mostimportant thinkers. Attention is devoted to the influence of the work of W. E. B. DuBois, Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Wright, and Frantz Fanon. Questions about race inEuropean philosophy -- especially in the work of Nietzsche, Heideg...

Explores in the context of Heidegger's thought a number of questions of far-reaching concern: what is the role of literary examples within philosophy? Is art dead? What is the relation of art to nature? This book also explores its relation to the further possibilities which that thought has opened in the writings of Arendt, Gadamer, and Levinas.