Toward a Global Idea of Race

Name: Toward a Global Idea of Race
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ISBN: 9780816649204

ISBN-10: 0816649200

ISBN-13: 9780816649204

Edition: 2007

Authors: Denise Ferreira da Silva

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In this far-ranging and penetrating work, Denise Ferreira da Silva asks why, after more than five hundred years of violence perpetrated by Europeans against people of color, is there no ethical outrage? nbsp; Rejecting the prevailing view that social categories of difference such as race and culture operate solely as principles of exclusion, Silva presents a critique of modern thought that shows how racial knowledge and power produce global space. Looking at the United States and Brazil, she argues that modern subjects are formed in philosophical accounts that presume two ontological moments-historicityandglobality-which are refigured in the concepts of the nation and the racial,…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 2/22/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.90" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface: Before the Event


Glossary


Introduction: A Death Foretold



The Transparency Thesis



Homo Historicus



The Critique of Productive Reason



The Play of Reason



Transcendental Poesis



Homo Scientificus



Productive Nomos



The Science of the Mind



The Sociologics of Racial Subjection



Homo Modernus



Outlining the Global/Historical Subject



The Spirit of Liberalism



Tropical Democracy


Conclusion: Future Anterior


Notes


Bibliography


Index