Phenomenology of Black Spirit

This staging of an elongated dialectical parallelism between Hegel's classic text and major 19th-20th-century Black thinkers explodes the western canon of philosophy. Johnson and Mandela Gray show that Hegel's abstract dialectic is transformed and critiqued when put into conversation with the lived dialectics of Black Thought: from Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs through to Malcolm X and Angela Davis.While Hegel articulates the dynamic logics that we see in these Black thinkers, when they are placed in parallel and considered together, the whiteness, both explicit and implicit, of Hegelianism itself is revealed. Forcing Hegelianism into the embodied history of Black Thought reveals a phenomenology of America whose spirit is Black.

About the author

Biko Mandela Gray is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. He is the author of Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject (Duke University Press, 2023). He is co-editor of The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Ryan J. Johnson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Elon University in North Carolina. He is the author of Deleuze, A Stoic (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) and The Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter (EUP, 2017). He is co-editor of Nietzsche and Epicurus (Bloomsbury, 2020), Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics (EUP, 2017) and The Movement of Nothingness (Davies Group Publishers, 2012).

Product details

• Authors: Biko Gray, Biko Johnson Gray, Mandela Biko Gray, Mandela Biko (Assistant Professor of Religio Gray, Mandela Biko (Assistant Professor of Religion Gray, GRAY BIKO MANDELA, Ryan J Johnson, Ryan J. Johnson, J Ryan Johnson, Ryan Johnson, Ryan J Johnson, Ryan J. (Associate Professor of Philosophy Johnson, Biko Mandela Gray
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781399510974
• ISBN: 978-1-399-51097-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories