Through the Crucible of Pain and Suffering: African-American Philosophy as a Gift and the Countering of the Western Philosophical Metanarrative

Autor/in	Yancy, George
Titel	Through the Crucible of Pain and Suffering: African-American Philosophy as a Gift and the Countering of the Western Philosophical Metanarrative
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47 (2015) 11, S.1143-1159 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1080/00131857.2014.991499
Schlagwörter	African Americans; Philosophy; Pain; Western Civilization; Ethics; Race; Whites; Racial Bias; Power Structure; Disadvantaged; Correlation; Heuristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Afroamerikaner; Philosophie; Schmerz; Ethik; Rasse; Abstammung; White; Weißer; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Korrelation; Heuristik
Abstract	In this article, I argue that African-American philosophy emerges from a socio-existential context where persons of African descent have been faced with the absurd in the form of white racism (This paper is a substantially revised version on an earlier article. See Yancy, G. (2011). "African-American Philosophy through the Lens of Socio-Existential Struggle.' "Philosophy & Social Criticism," Volume 37: 551-574). The concept of struggle, given the above, functions as both descriptive and heuristic vis-à-vis the meaning of African American philosophy. Expanding upon Charles Mills' concept of non-Cartesian "sums", I demonstrate the inextricable link between Black "lived" experience, struggle, and the morphology of meta-philosophical assumptions and philosophical problems specific to African-American philosophy. Because of the philosophical pretensions of white Western philosophy, with it claims to universal truth and objective knowledge, the "particularity" of African-American philosophical concerns with questions of embodiment and race is often deemed ersatz or non-philosophical. In this article, I argue that whiteness as the transcendental norm is productive of a form of ignorance endemic to Western philosophical practices that are myopic and hegemonic. Finally, African-American philosophy is theorized as a gift, as a critical counter-narrative that can be deployed to fissure Western philosophy's narcissism. (As Provided).
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