Hip Hop, Hegel, and the Art of Emancipation

Jim Vernon is Associate Professor of Philosophy at York University, Canada,  where he teaches Continental philosophy and political theory. He is the author of Hegel’s Philosophy of Language, and co-editor of Hegel and Deleuze: Together Again for the First Time (with Karen Houle) and Badiou and Hegel: Dialectics, Infinity, Subjectivity (with Antonio Calcagno)

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The South Bronx, or the ‘State of Nature’.- Chapter 3: Graffiti Writing, or The Symbolic Stage Art.- Chapter 4: DJing and Breaking, or The Classical Stage of Art.- Chapter 5: MCing, or The Romantic Stage of Art.- Chapter 6: Knowledge, or From Art to Religion, Philosophy and Politics.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.