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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Thompson, Mark Christian (1970-....)
Titre(s) : Phenomenal blackness [Texte imprimé] : Black power, philosophy, and theory / Mark Christian Thompson
Publication : Chicago (Ill.) ; London : The University of Chicago press, copyright 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (195 p.) ; 23 cm
Collection : Thinking literature
Lien à la collection : Thinking literature
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. et bibliogr. p. [161]-185. Index
"Phenomenal Blackness examines the changing interdisciplinary investments of key mid-century
African American writers and thinkers, showing how their investments in sociology
and anthropology gave way to a growing interest in German philosophy and critical
theory by the 1960s. Thompson analyzes this shift in intellectual focus across the
post-war decades, pinpointing its clearest expression in Amiri Baraka's writings on
jazz and blues, in which he insisted on philosophy as the critical means by which
to grasp African American expressive culture. More sociologically oriented thinkers,
such as W. E. B. Du Bois, had understood blackness as a singular set of socio-historical
characteristics. In contrast, writers such as Baraka, James Baldwin, Angela Y. Davis,
Eldridge Cleaver, and Malcolm X were variously drawn to notions of an African essence,
an ontology of Black being. For them, the work of Adorno, Habermas, Marcuse, and German
thinkers was a vital resource, allowing for continued cultural-materialist analysis
while accommodating the hermeneutical aspects of African American religious thought.
Mark Christian Thompson argues that these efforts to reimagine Black singularity led
to a phenomenological understanding of blackness--a "Black aesthetic dimension" wherein
aspirational models for Black liberation might emerge"
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Black power, philosophy, and theory
Sujet(s) : Philosophie noire américaine
Noirs américains -- Vie intellectuelle -- 20e siècle
Littérature américaine -- Auteurs noirs américains -- Influence allemande
Indice(s) Dewey :
973.049 6073 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - Étude en relation avec les Noirs américains
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226816418. - ISBN 0226816419. - ISBN 9780226816425. - ISBN 0226816427. -
ISBN 9780226816432 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46902461n
Notice n° :
FRBNF46902461
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : The essence of the matter ; The politics of Black friendship : Gadamer, Baldwin
and the Black hermeneutic ; The Aardvark of history : Malcolm X, language and power
; Black aesthetic autonomy : Ralph Ellison, Amiri Baraka, and "literary Negro-ness"
; The revolutionary will not be hypnotized : Eldridge Cleaver and Black ideology
; Unrepeatable : Angela Y. Davis and Black critical theory ; Black aesthetic theory.
