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

Tunstall, Dwayne A.

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Dwayne Tunstall is assistant professor of philosophy and African and African American studies at Grand Valley State University. He is the author of Yes, But Not Quite: Encountering Josiah Royce’s Ethico- Religious Insight (Fordham University Press, 2009) and Doing Philosophy Personally: Thinking about Metaphysics, Theism, and Antiblack Racism (Fordham University Press, 2012). He is also the author of more than ten articles and book chapters on a variety of topics, including aesthetics, Africana philosophy, pragmatism, religious ethics, and social and political philosophy. His research explores how Africana philosophy, existential phenomenology, moral philosophy, religious ethics, and classical American philosophy can complement one another when one is thinking about issues of moral agency, personal identity, race, and the legacy of Western modernity. He is currently president of the Josiah Royce Society.

Review:

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

“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)

About this edition

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0823251608
• ISBN 13: 9780823251605
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176