Sartre on Contingency: Antiblack Racism and Embodiment
Mabogo Percy More Professor of Philosophy, "Sartre on Contingency: Antiblack Racism and Embodiment "
English | ISBN: 1538157039 | 2021 | 318 pages | EPUB, PDF | 457 KB + 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1538157039 | 2021 | 318 pages | EPUB, PDF | 457 KB + 3 MB
The problem of antiblack racism has a long history in the world, with as long a history of thinkers writing and theorizing against it. Few philosophers have opposed institutionalized racialism as vehemently as Jean-Paul Sartre, both in his intellectual work and in his political action.
This book argues that not only does a relationship exists between Sartre’s existentialist philosophy and antiracism but also, more profoundly, that it is precisely his existential ontology that informs his anti-racist social and political commitments. He sought to examine the complexity of our existence as conscious bodies and thus provides the ontological basis for understanding the situation of a black person in an antiblack world.
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