Decolonizing Existentialism and Phenomenology
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Decolonizing Existentialism and Phenomenology

The Liberation of Philosophies of Freedom and Identity

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Decolonizing Existentialism and Phenomenology

The Liberation of Philosophies of Freedom and Identity

About this book

Decolonizing Existentialism and Phenomenology analyzes the history of decolonial existentialist and phenomenological theory in the work of figures such as Simone de Beauvoir, Richard Wright, Franz Fanon, Lewis Gordon, Audre Lorde, Sylvia Wynter, and Jamaica Kincaid in order to reimagine and rewrite the philosophical canon. Phenomenology and existentialism study the structures of consciousness as experienced from the perspective of the subject, yet their methods have been markedly tied to the subjective lived experiences and perspectives of White Europeans and Americans. By centering the experiences of peoples of the African diaspora, gender marginalized people, and queer peoples, Africana existentialist and phenomenologist philosophers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have been able to generate new frameworks for understanding structures of meaning and consciousness within oppressive colonial orders thus challenging histories of existentialism and phenomenology that bracket social markers of identity and experiences of social identity. This text represents a study of the philosophies of scholars that seek to decolonize hegemonic discourses and structures that impede the development of the selves and projects of colonized peoples.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction: Decolonizing Existentialism and Phenomenology
  5. Chapter 1: Roots of a Decolonial Feminist Philosophy: Beauvoir’s Feminist Phenomenology and Existentialism
  6. Chapter 2: Fanon’s Phenomenological Decolonial Psychiatry and the Negation of Black Subjectivity
  7. Chapter 3: Decolonizing the Paradox of Hypervisible Bodies: Unvisible Humanity in Wright’s Native Son and Black Boy
  8. Chapter 4: Lewis Gordon’s Phenomenology of Racist Bad Faith
  9. Chapter 5: Audre Lorde’s Decolonial, Queer, Black Feminist Phenomenology
  10. Chapter 6: Sylvia Wynter and Jamaica Kincaid: Postcolonial Feminist Approaches to Lived Experience
  11. Conclusion: Where Do Existentialism and Phenomenology Go from Here?
  12. Notes
  13. References
  14. About the Author