Critical Philosophy of Race

Robert Bernasconi is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of two books on Heidegger and one on Sartre, as well as numerous articles in continental philosophy and the history of philosophy, especially as it relates to the history of racism. He has edited a number of volumes of primary source material and he is the editor of three journals: Critical Philosophy of Race, Levinas Studies, and Eco-Ethica.

• Foreword by Linda Martin Alcoff Introduction by Robert Bernasconi Acknowledgments Note on Sources I. What Is Critical Philosophy of Race in the Continental Tradition? Chapter 1. Critical Philosophy of Race II. The Construction of Race Chapter 2. Racialization and the Construction of Religions Chapter 3. The Philosophy of Race in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 4. Racial Science in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 5. The Policing of Race Mixing: The Place of Biopower within the History of Racisms Chapter 6. Crossed Lines in the Racialization Process: Race as a Border Concept III. Black Philosophers Speak Out Chapter 7. Ottobah Cugoano's Place in the History of Political Philosophy: Slavery and the Philosophical Canon Chapter 8. A Haitian in Paris: Anténor Firmin as a Philosopher Against Racism Chapter 9. <"Our Duty to Conserve> ": W. E. B. Du Bois's Philosophy of History in Context Chapter 10. Frantz Fanon and Psychopathology: The Progressive Infrastructure of Black Skin, White Masks Chapter 11. Frantz Fanon's Engagement with Phenomenology: Unlocking the Temporal Architecture of Black Skin, White Masks IV. The Construction of the Concept of Racism Chapter 12. Nature, Culture, and Race Chapter 13. A Most Dangerous Error: The Boasian Myth of a Knock-Down Argument against Racism Chapter 14. Making Nietzsche's Thought Groan: The History of Racisms and Foucault's Genealogy of Nietzschean Genealogy in "Society Must Be Defended " Chapter 15. Existentialism Against Colonialism: Sartre, Fanon, and the Place of Lived Experience Bibliography Index