Achieving Our Humanity: The Idea of the Postracial Future / Edition 1

by Emmanuel C. Eze

Overview

Achieving Our Humanity explores a postracial future through a philosophical analysis of the social, cultural, economic and political experiences of race in the past and what this might mean for our present and, most importantly, our future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415929417
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/21/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Emmanuel C. Eze is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the editor of Race and Enlightenment: A Reader, African Philosophy: An Anthology (1997), and Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader (1998).

Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I Arguing with the Past; 1. The Modern Invention of Race; 2. Hume, Race, and Reason; 3. Race: A Transcendental?; Part II This Past Must Address its Future; 4. Négritude: Der humanismus der anderen Menschen; 5. Negritude and Modern African Philosophy: Black Is, Black Ain't; 6. Achieving our Humanity: The Idea of the Postracial Future; Postscript; Bibliography; Index

Editorial Reviews

"A better and more provocative, and more interesting book than anything that has been published since Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House—Paul Gilroy, Yale University."
"...intriguing ... illuminating... sophisticated and cogent." — Frank M. Kirkland, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"A better and more provocative, and more interesting book than anything that has been published since Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House." — Paul Gilroy, Yale University

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