Sartre on Contingency - Antiblack Racism and Embodiment

Exploring the implications of Sartre's existentialism for the problem of racism, a prominent African philosopher provides the ontological basis for understanding the situation of a black person in an antiblack world.

List of contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Philosophy and Racism

Reason and Antiblack Racism

Sartre's Phenomenological Ontology

The Concept of Contingency

The Body, Contingency and Racism

Ontic Situations

Solutions

Racial Solidarity

Sartre and Africana Existential Philosophy

The Meaning of Jean-Paul Sartre Today

Notes

References

About the author

Mabogo Percy More is a former professor of philosophy at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and is currently professor of philosophy at the University of Limpopo, South Africa. He is the author of many journal articles and his latest book is Steve Biko: Philosophy, Identity and Liberation (HSRC Press, 2017). He was awarded the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement award by the Caribbean Philosophical Association in 2015.

Summary

Exploring the implications of Sartre’s existentialism for the problem of racism, a prominent African philosopher provides the ontological basis for understanding the situation of a black person in an antiblack world.

Product details

• Authors: Mabogo Percy More
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 18 to 22
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781538157039
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5703-9
• No. of pages: 318
• Series: Living Existentialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Social & political philosophy, Phenomenology & Existentialism