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Phenomenal Blackness
Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory
Taschenbuch von Mark Christian Thompson
Sprache: Englisch

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"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"--
"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"--
Über den Autor
Mark Christian Thompson is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor and chair of English at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of four books, most recently, Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory, published in the Thinking Literature series by the University of Chicago Press.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Unterricht
Genre: Erziehung & Bildung
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226816425
ISBN-10: 0226816427
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Thompson, Mark Christian
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 153 x 228 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Mark Christian Thompson
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.01.2022
Gewicht: 0,302 kg
Artikel-ID: 120259174
Über den Autor
Mark Christian Thompson is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor and chair of English at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of four books, most recently, Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory, published in the Thinking Literature series by the University of Chicago Press.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Unterricht
Genre: Erziehung & Bildung
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226816425
ISBN-10: 0226816427
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Thompson, Mark Christian
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 153 x 228 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Mark Christian Thompson
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.01.2022
Gewicht: 0,302 kg
Artikel-ID: 120259174
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