The Politics of Death in Anti-colonial Praxis

Gregory Maxaulane

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781978774667
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Economy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The Politics of Death in Anti-colonial Praxis by Gregory Maxaulane explores the political conditions necessary for revolution and freedom. Located at the intersection of continental philosophy and Black studies, this book examines the political economy of death within the Black experience in South Africa by theorizing death as a productive and generative process. Maxaulane provides a deeper understanding of the politics of death by focusing on how continental philosophy and Black studies treat the problem of praxis as well as the parallels and convergences between the models of praxis they sustain. This book is a comprehensive exploration of these fields, providing critical engagements with the evolution of ideology and the anti-colonial praxis in South African history. Challenging liberal democratic doctrines that have undermined the claims of Black radical imagination, Maxaulane argues that the political economy of death allows us to break from tradition through a concept of freedom not grounded in transcendentalism.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Marxism and the Politics of the Transition in South Africa
• Chapter 2: ‘Black Impasses’ to the Hegemonic Logic of Liberalism
• Chapter 3: The Dialectics of Death and the Problem of the Political
• Chapter 4: Revolution and Freedom in Biko’s Theory of Black Consciousness
• Conclusion
• References
• Index
• About the Author