Post Racial Limits of Memorialcb

Informationen zum Autor By Alfred Frankowski Klappentext The Post-Racial Limits of Memorialization: Toward a Political Sense of Mourningattempts to show how post-racial discourse, in general, and post-racial memory, specifically, operates as a context through which the memorialization of anti-black violence and the production of new forms of this violence are connected. Alfred Frankowski argues that aside from being symbolically meaningful, the post-racial context requires that memorialization of anti-black violence in the past produces memory as a type of forgetting. By challenging many of tenants of the critical turn in political philosophy and aesthetics, he argues against a politics of reconciliation and for a political sense of mourning that amplifies the universality of violence embedded in our contemporary sensibility. He argues for a sense of mourning that requires that we deepen our understanding of how remembrance and resistance to oppression remain linked and necessitates a fluid and active reconfiguration relative to the context in which this oppression exists. Zusammenfassung This book explores the problematic relationship between reconciliation and the continuance of violence and oppression. Frankowski engages with contemporary issues in philosophy of race! African American philosophy! and critical race theory in connection with German idealism! psychoanalysis! critical theory! phenomenology! and post-structuralism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Post-racial memory and the shadow of despair Chapter 2: Fate and the post-racial limits of memorialization Chapter 3: Sorrow as the longest memory of neglectChapter 4: The Cassandra complex Chapter 5: The sublime and a political sense of mourning Chapter 6: Mourning and philosophical pessimism within the post-racial context

Product details

• Authors: Alfred Frankowski, Frankowski Alfred
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.11.2015, delayed
• EAN: 9781498502764
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0276-4
• Series: Philosophy of Race; Philosophy of Race
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Soziale Diskriminierung und Gleichbehandlung, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Social discrimination & inequality, Violence in society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Violence and abuse in society, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General