Decolonizing Existentialism and Phenomenology - The Liberation of Philosophies of Freedom and Identity

This trans-disciplinary, socio-spatial study analyzes the history of decolonial existentialist and phenomenological theory in the work of figures such as Simone de Beauvoir, Richard Wright, Franz Fanon, Lewis Gordon, Audre Lorde, Sylvia Wynter, and Jamaica Kincaid to decolonize dominant discourses on femininity, Blackness, and Black peoples.

Sommario

Introduction: Decolonizing Existentialism and Phenomenology
Chapter 1: Roots of a Decolonial Feminist Philosophy: Beauvoir's Feminist Phenomenology and Existentialism
Chapter 2: Fanon's Phenomenological Decolonial Psychology and the Negation of Black Subjectivity
Chapter 3: Decolonizing the Paradox of Hyper-Visible Bodies, Un-visible Humanity in Wright's Native Son and Black Boy
Chapter 4: Lewis Gordon's Phenomenology of Racist Bad Faith
Chapter 5: Audre Lorde's Decolonial, Queer, Black Feminist Phenomenology
Chapter 6: Sylvia Wynter and Jamaica Kincaid: Post-Colonial Feminist Approaches to Lived Experience
Conclusion: Where do Existentialism and Phenomenology Go from Here?
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Info autore

Jina Fast is the SHIFT professor of applied ethics and the common good at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jina Fast
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.11.2023
• EAN: 9781538178034
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-7803-4
• Pagine: 232
• Serie: Living Existentialism
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: dall'antichità ai giorni nostri; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism