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The Center Must Not Hold

White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy

von: George Yancy, Barbara Applebaum, Susan E. Babbitt, Alison Bailey, Berit Brogaard, Lisa Heldke, Sarah Hoagland, Cynthia Kaufman, Crista Lebens, Cris Mayo, Alexis Shotwell, Shannon Sullivan, Lisa Tessman, Audrey Thompson
48,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	10.07.2012
ISBN/EAN:	9780739138830
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	298

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Titelbeschreibung

The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy functions as a textual site where white women philosophers engage boldly in critical acts of exploring ways of naming and disrupting whiteness in terms of how it has defined the conceptual field of philosophy. Within this text, white women philosophers critique the field of philosophy for its complicity with whiteness as a structure of power, as normative, and as hegemonic. In this way, the authority of whiteness to define what is philosophically worthy is seen as reinforcing forms of philosophical narcissism and hegemony. Challenging the whiteness of philosophy in terms of its hubristic tendencies, white women philosophers within this text assert their alliance with people of color who have been both marginalized within the field of philosophy and have had their philosophical and intellectual concerns and traditions dismissed as particularistic. Aware that feminist praxis does not necessarily lead to anti-racist praxis, the white women philosophers within this text refuse to telescope as a site of critical inquiry one site of hegemony (sexism) over another (racism). As such, the white women philosophers within this text are conscious of the ways in which they are implicated in perpetuating whiteness as a site of power within the domain of philosophy. Framed within a philosophical space that values the multiplicity of philosophical voices, and driven by a feminist framework that valorizes de-centering locations of hegemony, interdisciplinary dialogue, and transformative praxis, The Center Must Not Hold refuses to allow the white center of philosophy to masquerade as universal and given. The text de-centers various epistemic and value orders that are predicated upon maintaining the center of philosophy as white. The white women philosophers who contribute to this text explore ethics, epistemology, aesthetics, taste, the nature of a dilemma, questions of the secularity of philosophy, perception, discipline-based values around how to listen and argue, the crucial role that social location plays in the continued ignorance about the reality of oppression and privilege as these relate to the subtle forms of white valorization and maintenance, and more. Those interested in critical race theory and critical whiteness studies will appreciate how the contributors have linked these areas of critical inquiry within the often abstract domain of philosophy.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

In this collection, white women philosophers engage boldly in critical acts of exploring ways of naming and disrupting whiteness in terms of how it has defined the conceptual field of philosophy. Focuses on the whiteness of the epistemic and value-laden norms within philosophy itself, the text dares to identify the proverbial elephant in the room known as white supremacy and how that supremacy functions as the measure of reason, knowledge, and philosophical intelligibility.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Troublemaking Allies Chapter 1. White Ignorance and the Denials of Complicity: On the Possibility of Doing Philosophy in Good Faith Chapter 2. Knowing What the Ending Will Be: Pragmatism and White Cultural Authority Chapter 3. On Intersectionality and the Whiteness of Feminist Philosophy Chapter 4. The Man of Culture: The Civilized and the Barbarian in Western Philosophy Chapter 5. Whiteness and Rationality: Feminist Dialogue on Race in Academic Institutional Spaces Chapter 6. Appropriate Subjects: Whiteness and the Discipline of Philosophy Chapter 7. Color in the Theory of Colors? Or: Are Philosophers' Colors All White? Chapter 8. The Secularity of Philosophy: Race, Religion, and the Silence of Exclusion Chapter 9. Philosophy's Whiteness and the Loss of Wisdom Chapter 10. Against the Whiteness of Ethics: Dilemmatizing as a Critical Approach Chapter 11. The Whiteness of Anti-Racist White Philosophical Address Chapter 12. Colonial Practices/Colonial Identities: Racial Formation and White Feminist Academic Discourse Chapter 13. Is Philosophy Anything if it Isn't White?

Autorenportrait

George Yancy is associate professor of philosophy at Duquesne University and author of Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race. He is also coeditor of Critical Perspectives on bell hooks and Narrative Identities: Psychologists Engaged in Self-Construction and editor of Philosophy in Multiple Voices, White on White/Black on Black, What White Looks Like: African American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question, I, Cornel West: A Critical Reader, and African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations.