Doing Philosophy Personally: Thinking about Metaphysics, Theism, and Antiblack Racism (American Philosophy) - Hardcover

Dwayne A. Tunstall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823251608 ISBN 13: 9780823251605

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Gabriel Marcel's reflective method is animated by his extraphilosophical commitment to battle the ever-present threat of dehumanization in late Western modernity. Unfortunately, Marcel neglected to examine what is perhaps the most prevalent threat of dehumanization in Western modernity: antiblack racism. Without such an account, Marcel's reflective method is weakened because it cannot live up to its extraphilosophical commitment. Tunstall remedies this shortcoming in his eloquent new volume.

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Review:

"In this remarkable book, Tunstall presents his reader with an insightful work of scholarship that integrates three distinct components: an extremely lucid account of Marcelian phenomenological metaphysics, an existentialist account of antiblack racism, and a powerful description of religious experience as seen through the lens of Africana philosophy and theology. The result is a uniquely insightful work that offers a clear illumination of Marcel's work as well as its relevance for ongoing existentialist discourses on antiblack racism."----Terrance MacMullan "Eastern Washington University "

" . . . well-researched, carefully written and cogently argued."----Michael L. Raposa "Lehigh University "

About this edition

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0823251608
• ISBN 13: 9780823251605
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176