Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy explores how everyday Black vernacular practices, developed to negotiate survival and joy, can be understood as philosophy in their own right. Devonya N. Havis argues that many unique cultural and intellectual practices of African diasporic communities have done the work of traditional philosophies. Focusing on creative practices that take place within Black American diasporic cultures via narratives, the blues, jazz, work songs, and other expressive forms, this book articulates a form of Black vernacular Philosophy that is centered within and emerges from meaning structures cultivated by Black communities. These distinct philosophical practices, running parallel with and often improvising on European philosophy, should be acknowledged for their rigorous theoretical formation and for their disruption of traditional Western philosophical ontologies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-12-21
Mått158 x 236 x 15 mm
Vikt372 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePhilosophy of Race
Antal sidor128
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498530149

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In this slim volume, Havis presents a complex, ambitious, original introduction to Black vernacular phenomena, i.e., experiences of alterity that accompany moments of indeterminacy or breakdown in conceptual structures and established power relations. Drawing on Foucault and Levinas, Havis argues that such phenomena emerge in playful, indirect acts of performance that critique the self-evidence of institutions and discourses, support the individual’s desire for a distinctive style of existence, and summon listeners to ethico-political concern for others and for alterity in general… [Havis's] quest to keep Black difference liminal rather than to capture it in a structure of theoretical distinctions—thereby perpetuating war between Black vernacular existence and disciplinary images of the Black—will intrigue those interested in Continental philosophy, theology, and African American studies. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.