Binding: Paperback
Description: This unorthodox account of 1960s Black thought rigorously details the field's debts to German critical theory and explores a forgotten tradition of Black singularity. Phenomenal Blackness examines the changing interdisciplinary investments of key mid - century Black writers and thinkers including the growing interest in German philosophy and critical theory. Mark Christian Thompson analyzes this shift in intellectual focus across the post - war decades placing Black Power thought in a philosophical context. Prior to the 1960s 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 Amiri Baraka James Baldwin Angela Y. Davis Eldridge Cleaver and Malcolm X were drawn to notions of an African essence an ontology of Black being. With these perspectives literary language came to be seen as the primary social expression of Blackness. For this new way of thinking the works of philosophers such as Adorno Habermas and Marcuse were a vital resource allowing for continued cultural - materialist analysis while accommodating the hermeneutical aspects of Black religious thought. 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.
Title: Phenomenal Blackness Black Power Philosophy And Theory
Author(s): Thompson Professor Mark Christian
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226816425
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 1/21/2022
Series: Thinking Literature
Category: Education