Achieving Our Humanity - The Idea of the Postracial Future

Zusatztext "A better and more provocative! and more interesting book than anything that has been published since Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House--Paul Gilroy! Yale University.""...intriguing ... illuminating... sophisticated and cogent." -- Frank M. Kirkland! Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"A better and more provocative! and more interesting book than anything that has been published since Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House." -- Paul Gilroy! Yale University Informationen zum Autor Emmanuel C. Eze is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the editor of Race and Enlightenment: A Reader, African Philosophy: An Anthology (1997), and Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader (1998). Klappentext First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Emmanuel Eze argues that racial identification is not essential to our humanity. This text explores this post-racial future through a philosophical analysis of the social, cultural, economic and, most importantly, our future. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I Arguing with the Past; 1. The Modern Invention of Race; 2. Hume, Race, and Reason; 3. Race: A Transcendental?; Part II This Past Must Address its Future; 4. Négritude: Der humanismus der anderen Menschen; 5. Negritude and Modern African Philosophy: Black Is, Black Ain't; 6. Achieving our Humanity: The Idea of the Postracial Future; Postscript; Bibliography; Index

Product details

• Authors: Emmanuel C. Eze, Eze Emmanuel C.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.10.2001
• EAN: 9780415929400
• ISBN: 978-0-415-92940-0
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General