AnyBook4Less.com	Find the Best Price on the Web Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Home  |  Store List  |  FAQ  |  Contact Us  |
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money Keyword AuthorISBN

Title: Race (Blackwell Readings in Continental Philosophy) by Robert Bernasconi ISBN: 0-631-20783-X Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $33.95

Your Country USA Canada United Kingdom Australia Austria Belgium France Germany Italy Netherlands Switzerland Currency AutoUSD CAD GBP EUR AUD CHF Delivery Only cheapest delivery All delivery options Include Used Books Are you a club member of: Barnes and Noble Books A Million Chapters.Indigo.ca

Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: A very useful and timely collection
Comment: Bernasconi (Univ. of Memphis) has here assembled and edited an important text, contributing greatly to the discussions among Continental philosophers, both here and abroad, on the persisting problems of race and racism.

There are two key aspects of this volume that I'd like to highlight here:

1. The collection features a strong combination of established and classically-received scholars (Kant, DuBois, Nardal, Senghor, Sartre, Fanon) and many big-name contemporary scholars, such as Judith Butler, Linda Martin Alcoff, and Robert Gooding-Williams.

2. Bernasconi's inclusion of an updated translation of chapter five of Fanon's monumental existential-phenomenology of racialized experience, BLACK SKIN/WHITE MASKS (1952), "The Lived Experience of the Black" (correcting Charles Lam Markmann's mistranslation, "The Fact of Blackness"). This chapter is absolutely central for any and all critical explorations of race and racialized conscisousness.

Bernasconi's recent turn toward Continentalist perspectives on race and racism is not without controversy; however, even his critics would agree that the texts assembled in this volume are very important for the student and scholar alike.

Rating: 2
Summary: Exegetical excess
Comment: Mr. Bernasconi, in a far flung attempt to trace the problem of twentieth century racism to certain nineteenth century theological positions, has taken highly selective and controversial studies done in that century, in what appears to be a backhanded attempt under the guise of objective scholarly inquiry to paint with a broad brush the entire religious community of that era with a simplistic and in many cases unfair portrayal. He has unfortunately overreached himself in this endeavor, taking on a task fit for a more philosphically objective personality.

Similar Books:

	Title: The Idea of Race (Hackett Publishing Co.) by Robert Bernasconi, Tommy Lee Lott ISBN: 0872204588 Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95
	Title: The Meaning of Race: Race, History and Culture in Western Society by Kenan Malik ISBN: 0814755534 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $22.00
	Title: Theories of Race and Racism : A Reader by Les Back, John Solomos ISBN: 0415156726 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95
	Title: American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin Phillips ISBN: 0670032646 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95