Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (djvu) [blackatk]

Release date: February 1, 1995 | With A special thanks to "wetworx12" - The bitter, race-baiting troll laden with who inspired this upload | filetype: djvu |


Lewis Gordon presents the first detailed existential phenomenological investigation of antiblack racism as a form of Sartrean bad faith. Bad faith, the attitude in which human beings attempt to evade freedom and responsibility, is treated as a constant possibility of human existence. Antiblack racism, the attitude and practice that involve the construction of black people as fundamentally inferior and subhuman, is examined as an effort to evade the responsibilities of a human and humane world. Gordon argues that the concept of bad faith militates against any human science that is built upon a theory of human nature and as such offers an analysis of antiblack racism that stands as a challenge to our ordinary assumptions of what it means to be human.


Review
"... a major contribution to Sartre studies, to the analysis of antiblack racism, to the very meaning of color itself in human terms."

—Maurice Natanson, Yale University
"This is a remarkable work . . . Unusual are the freshness and freedom from fashionable political cant of Gordon's work."


—Robert V. Stone, Long Island University
About the Author
Lewis R. Gordon teaches philosophy and African American Studies at Purdue University.

Biography
Lewis R. Gordon is an Afro-Jewish philosopher, social and political activist, critic, and musician (drums and piano). He has lectured across the globe and is active with a variety of international associations and organizations. He teaches in the Department of Philosophy, the Institute for African American Studies, and the Center for Judaic Studies and Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. He is the founder of the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies at Temple University, where he was on faculty as the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy (2004-2013) after teaching as the founding chairperson of the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University (1996-2004) and Purdue University (1993-1995). He is a graduate of Yale University (Ph.D., 1993) and Lehman College's Scholars Program (1984). A former high school teacher, he was the founder of The Second Chance Program for In-School Truants at Lehman High School. His radio segment, "Life According to Dr. Lewis Gordon," is broadcasted every Tuesday evening on The Redding News Review (http://www.lewisrgordon.com/audio-video/audio/).

For a more comprehensive biography and updates on Lewis R. Gordon, please consult: http://lewisrgordon.com/


Paperback: 236 pages
Publisher: Humanity Books (February 1, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1573925349
ISBN-13: 978-1573925341



http://www.amazon.com/Faith-Antiblack-Racism-Lewis-Gordon/dp/1573925349/


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