Dignity or Death
Ethics and Politics of Race
Seiten
2022
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-4866-8 (ISBN)
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-4866-8 (ISBN)
This book sets out to understand the ethical dimension of Black lives and deaths in the modern period. Recent events—from the brutal murder of George Floyd to the pervasive violence meted out daily on the streets of our cities—have demonstrated all too clearly the fundamental trait that shapes our contemporary moment: the Black condition is defined by indignity.
Ajari takes dignity as his starting point because dignity is what white people try to abolish in their violence toward Black people, and it is what they deprive themselves of in exerting this violence. Dignity is also what Black people collectively affirm when they rise up against white domination. When a young Black man or woman’s dignity is taken from them as the result of assault, rape, or assassination at the hands of the state, the roots of a long history of struggle, conquest, and affirmation of African humanity are exposed and shaken. Above all, dignity is the ability of the oppressed, trapped between life and death, to remain standing.
Dignity or Death offers an uncompromising critical analysis of the European philosophical tradition in order to recover the misunderstood history of radical thought in Black worlds. Slave uprisings, Negritude, radical Christian traditions in North America and South Africa, and political ontology are all steps on a long and troubled path of liberation.
Ajari takes dignity as his starting point because dignity is what white people try to abolish in their violence toward Black people, and it is what they deprive themselves of in exerting this violence. Dignity is also what Black people collectively affirm when they rise up against white domination. When a young Black man or woman’s dignity is taken from them as the result of assault, rape, or assassination at the hands of the state, the roots of a long history of struggle, conquest, and affirmation of African humanity are exposed and shaken. Above all, dignity is the ability of the oppressed, trapped between life and death, to remain standing.
Dignity or Death offers an uncompromising critical analysis of the European philosophical tradition in order to recover the misunderstood history of radical thought in Black worlds. Slave uprisings, Negritude, radical Christian traditions in North America and South Africa, and political ontology are all steps on a long and troubled path of liberation.
Norman Ajari teaches at the University of Edinburgh
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Dignity Re-embodied
Chapter One: Decolonizing Moral Philosophy
Chapter 2: Indignity
Chapter 3: Our Dignity is Older than Us
Part Two: Caliban the Political Theologian
Chapter 4: The Universal by Accident
Chapter 5: A Theology of Black Dignity in North America
Chapter 6: Ubuntu: Philosophy, Religion, and Community in Black Africa
Part Three: Forms-of-death in the European Necropolis
Chapter 7: Recognition and Dignity in the Era of Global Apartheid
Conclusion: Black Political Ontology and Black Dignity
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.11.2022 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | Matthew B. Smith |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 408 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5095-4866-1 / 1509548661 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5095-4866-8 / 9781509548668 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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