Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy (Studies in Continental Thought)

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, Levi-Strauss, and Arendt--are also considered. This volume provides an indispensable critical introduction to new perspectives on thinking about race and racism. New thinking on how continental philosophers approach race and racism.

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, Heidegger, L?vi-Strauss, and Arendt — are also considered. This volume provides an indispensable criticalintroduction to new perspectives on thinking about race and racism.

Acknowledgments — Introduction / Robert Bernasconi — Negroes / Alain David — "One far off divine event" : "race" and a future history in Du Bois / Kevin Thomas Miles — Douglass and Du Bois's der schwartze Volksgeist / Ronald R. Sundstrom — On the use and abuse of race in philosophy : Nietzsche, Jews, and race / Jacqueline Scott — Heidegger and race / Sonia Sikka — Ethos and ethnos : an introduction to Eric Voegelin's critique of European racism / David J. Levy — Tropiques and Suzanne Câesaire : the expanse of negritude and surrealism / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting — Losing sight of the real : recasting Merleau-Ponty in Fanon's critique of Mannoni / Nigel Gibson — Fanon reading (W)right, the (W)right reading of Fanon : race, modernity, and the fate of humanism / Lou Turner — Alienation and its double; or, The secretion of race / Kelly Oliver — (Anti-semitic) subject, liberal in/tolerance, universal politics : Sartre re-petitioned / Erik Vogt — Sartre and the social construction of race / Donna Marcano — The interventions of culture : Claude Lâevi-Strauss, race, and the critique of historical time / Kamala Visweswaran — All power to the people! Hannah Arendt's theory of communicative action in a racialized democracy / Joy James — Beyond Black Orpheus : preliminary thoughts on the good of African philosophy / Jason M. Wirth — Appendix: what the black man contributes / Lâeopold Sâedar Senghor — Contributors — Index.