Devonya N. Havis

Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy explores how everyday Black vernacular practices, developed to negotiate survival and joy, can be understood as philosophy in their own right. Devonya N. Havis argues that many unique cultural and intellectual practices of African diasporic communities have done the work of traditional philosophies. Focusing on creative practices that take place within Black American diasporic cultures via narratives, the blues, jazz, work songs, and other expressive forms, this book articulates a form of Black vernacular Philosophy that is centered within and emerges from meaning structures cultivated by Black communities. These distinct philosophical practices, running parallel with and often improvising on European philosophy, should be acknowledged for their rigorous theoretical formation and for their disruption of traditional Western philosophical ontologies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978791558
• Artikelnr.: 74398536

Autorenporträt

Devonya N. Havis is associate professor of philosophy at Canisius College and the University at Buffalo.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Performative Utterance
Chapter 2: How to Slip the Yoke: The Black (W)Hole Ritual
Chapter 3: Searching for the Black Difference: Black Philosophy and
Redemption Songs
Chapter 4: A Critique of Black Philosophy: Rethinking Black Philosophical
Re-appropriations of Humanism
Chapter 5: No More Redemption Songs: The Black Difference and Alterity
Conclusion