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Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism

By Lewis R. Gordon

Book information

Publisher
Humanity Books
Year
1995
ISBN
1573925349, 9781573925341
LCC
HT1521 .G65 1995
Google Books ID
kP1WAAAAYAA
Open Library ID
OL22371027M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
52 MB (54727936 bytes)
Pages
118\118
Time added
2014-10-05 02:30:00

Description

Lewis Gordon presents the first detailed existential phenomenological investigation of anti-black 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. Anti-black 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 anti-black racism that stands as a challenge to our ordinary assumptions of what it means to be human.

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