Race after Sartre

Jonathan Judaken - Editor

Description

Race after Sartre is the first book to systematically interrogate Jean-Paul Sartre's antiracist politics and his largely unrecognized contributions to critical race theories, postcolonialism, and Africana existentialism. The contributors offer an overview of Sartre's positions on racism as they changed throughout the course of his life, providing a coherent account of the various ways in which he understood how racism could be articulated and opposed. They interrogate his numerous and influential works on the topic, and his insights are utilized to assess some of today's racial quandaries, including the November 2005 riots in France, Hurricane Katrina, immigration, affirmative action, and reparations for slavery and apartheid. The contributors also consider Sartre's impact upon the insurgent antiracist activists and writers who also walked the roads to freedom that Sartre helped pave.

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I: Sartre on Race and Racism

1. Sartre on Racism: From Existential Phenomenology to Globalization and “the New Racism”
Jonathan Judaken

2. Skin for Sale: Race and The Respectful Prostitute
Steve Martinot

3. The Persistence of Colonialism: Sartre, the Left, and Identity in Postcolonial France, 1970–1974
Paige Arthur

Part II: Sartre and Antiracist Theory

4. Race: From Philosophy to History
Christian Delacampagne

5. Sartre and Levinas: Philosophers against Racism and Antisemitism
Robert Bernasconi

6. European Intellectuals and Colonial Difference: Césaire and Fanon beyond Sartre and Foucault
George Ciccariello-Maher

Part III: Sartre and Africana Existentialism

7. Sartre and Black Existentialism
Lewis R. Gordon

8. Sartre and South African Apartheid
Mabogo P. More

Part IV: Sartre and the Postcolonial Turn

9. Difference/Indifference: Sartre, Glissant, and the Race of Francophone Literature
Richard H. Watts

10. Violence, Nonviolence: Sartre on Fanon
Judith Butler

Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Épistémologie
• Métaphysique
• Éthique et morale
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Philosophy
• France
• Metaphysics
• Ethique et morale

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 26 août 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791477854
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Race after Sartre

SUNY series, Philosophy and Race

Robert Bernasconi and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Race after Sartre Antiracism, Africana Existentialism, Postcolonialism

Edited byJonathan Judaken

State University of New York Press

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

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Race after Sartre: Antiracism, Africana Existentialism, Postcolonialism / edited by Jonathan Judaken. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN978–0–7914–7547–8(hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Racism.2. Phenomenological sociology.3.Sociology —Philosophy.4.Sartre, Jean-Paul,1905–1980I. Judaken, Jonathan,—Criticism and interpretation. 1968–

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To Mom and Dad To Mark and Loren and David To Jaynie And to families everywhere emancipating themselves from the bounds of “race”

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

C o n t e n t s

Part I: Sartre on Race and Racism 1. Sartre on Racism: From Existential Phenomenology to Globalization and “the New Racism” Jonathan Judaken 2. Skin for Sale: Race andThe Respectful Prostitute Steve Martinot 3. The Persistence of Colonialism: Sartre, the Left, and Identity in Postcolonial France, 1970–1974 Paige Arthur

Part II: Sartre and Antiracist Theory

4. Race: From Philosophy to History Christian Delacampagne 5. Sartre and Levinas: Philosophers against Racism and Antisemitism Robert Bernasconi 6. European Intellectuals and Colonial Difference: Césaire and Fanon beyond Sartre and Foucault George CiccarielloMaher

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Part III: Sartre and Africana Existentialism 7. Sartre and Black Existentialism Lewis R. Gordon 8. Sartre and South African Apartheid Mabogo P. More

Part IV: Sartre and the Postcolonial Turn 9. Difference/Indifference: Sartre, Glissant, and the Race of Francophone Literature Richard H. Watts

10. Violence, Nonviolence: Sartre on Fanon Judith Butler

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