Metaracial : Hegel, antiblackness, and political identity /
A formidable critical project on the limits of antiracist philosophy. Exploring anxieties raised by Atlantic slavery in radical enlightenment literature concerned about political unfreedom in Europe, Metaracial argues that Hegel's philosophy assuages these anxieties for the left. Interpreting H...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2023].
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| Summary: | A formidable critical project on the limits of antiracist philosophy. Exploring anxieties raised by Atlantic slavery in radical enlightenment literature concerned about political unfreedom in Europe, Metaracial argues that Hegel's philosophy assuages these anxieties for the left. Interpreting Hegel beside Rousseau, Kant, Mary Shelley, and Marx, Terada traces Hegel's transposition of racial hierarchy into a hierarchy of stances toward reality. By doing so, she argues, Hegel is simultaneously antiracist and antiblack. In dialogue with Black Studies, psychoanalysis, and critical theory, Metaracial offers a genealogy of the limits of antiracism. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 223 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-211) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226823690 0226823695 9780226823713 0226823717 |