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Sartre on Contingency - (Living Existentialism) by Mabogo Percy More (Paperback)

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  • Exploring the implications of Sartre's existentialism for the problem of racism, a prominent African philosopher provides the ontological basis for understanding the situation of a black person in an antiblack world.
  • About the Author: Mabogo Percy More is a former professor of philosophy at the University of the North, University of Durban-Westville, University of KwaZulu-Natal, all in South Africa, and is currently associate researcher at the University of Limpopo, South Africa.
  • 318 Pages
  • Philosophy, Movements
  • Series Name: Living Existentialism

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Exploring the implications of Sartre's existentialism for the problem of racism, a prominent African philosopher provides the ontological basis for understanding the situation of a black person in an antiblack world.



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Exploring the implications of Sartre's existentialism for the problem of racism, a prominent African philosopher provides the ontological basis for understanding the situation of a black person in an antiblack world.



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Sartre on Contingency is an exceptional examination and articulation of antiblack racism as an imposed reality of black people whose only 'mistake' was to be born black. Mabogo Percy More offers a seamless and timely analysis of the illogical and immoral expectation, created by whiteness in its god complex, for black people to legitimize their (incontrovertible) humanity in a bid to liberate themselves from racial oppression. More asks us to see through the contingency of antiblack racism and reject whiteness as the true humanity with the help of the Sartrean ontological framework.



Sartre on Contingency provides a cogent argument of Sartre's relevance in contemporary debates around anti-racist praxis. More makes a convincing case for why everyone fighting against anti-Black racism today ought to read and engage with Sartre's complex thought. The way in which More clarifies and guides the reader through Sartre's immense oeuvre for established and new scholars approaching this canonical thinker from a variety of methodological and disciplinary schools of thought is a significant achievement.



This is the book on Sartre's philosophy that many of us from the global south who found inspiration and solidarity from his thought have been waiting for. Through focusing on the problem of contingency, Mabogo More, South Africa's most eminent living existential philosopher, brings to the fore the centrality of existence preceding essence and the gravity of its reversal in the ongoing, pernicious phenomenon of racism. It is a tour de force reflection from a philosopher who lived through the horrors of apartheid and who now, facing the challenges of its reassertion among other forms of oppression by other means in the twenty-first century, reminds us of the value of committed liberatory praxis. In true existential fashion, More is not trapped in exegesis but places Sartre's thought, instead, as an ally in conversation with Black existential philosophy from Fanon to Biko to contemporary Africana existential philosophers, wherein the political imperatives of solidarity and struggle are conditions for dignity, freedom, and--as is increasingly clear--breath and life.




About the Author



Mabogo Percy More is a former professor of philosophy at the University of the North, University of Durban-Westville, University of KwaZulu-Natal, all in South Africa, and is currently associate researcher at the University of Limpopo, South Africa. He has authored many journal articles and two books: Biko: Philosophy, Identity and Liberation and Looking Through Philosophy in Black.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .67 Inches (D)
Weight: .94 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 318
Genre: Philosophy
Sub-Genre: Movements
Series Title: Living Existentialism
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Theme: Existentialism
Format: Paperback
Author: Mabogo Percy More
Language: English
Street Date: September 22, 2021
TCIN: 1005110967
UPC: 9781538157046
Item Number (DPCI): 247-04-6278
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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