1st Edition
Achieving Our Humanity The Idea of the Postracial Future
By Emmanuel C. Eze
Copyright 2001
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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Achieving Our Humanity explores a postracial future through a philosophical analysis of the social, cultural, economic and political experiences of race in the past and what this might mean for our present and, most importantly, our future.
Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I Arguing with the Past; 1. The Modern Invention of Race; 2. Hume, Race, and Reason; 3. Race: A Transcendental?; Part II This Past Must Address its Future; 4. Négritude: Der humanismus der anderen Menschen; 5. Negritude and Modern African Philosophy: Black Is, Black Ain't; 6. Achieving our Humanity: The Idea of the Postracial Future; Postscript; Bibliography; Index
Biography
Emmanuel C. Eze is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the editor of Race and Enlightenment: A Reader, African Philosophy: An Anthology (1997), and Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader (1998).
"A better and more provocative, and more interesting book than anything that has been published since Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House--Paul Gilroy, Yale University."
"...intriguing ... illuminating... sophisticated and cogent." -- Frank M. Kirkland, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"A better and more provocative, and more interesting book than anything that has been published since Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House." -- Paul Gilroy, Yale University
