Why write a new book about Steve Biko? Are there untapped lessons to be learned or principles to be gleaned from Biko’s work? As he answers these questions, Mabogo More presents an unparalleled critique of Biko’s philosophy and social theory. Perhaps most important, he shows how Biko’s ideas speak to the present human condition, especially the black condition, not only in South Africa, but also in the United States, Europe, and other societies where racism continues to manifest in various forms.

Biko: Philosophy, Identity, and Liberation

Biographies & Memoirs

More, Mabogo Percy

Historical

Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.

Sartre on Contingency: Antiblack Racism and Embodiment (Living Existentialism)

Review This is the book on Sartre’s philosophy that many of us from the global south who found inspiration and solidarity from his thought have been waiting for. Through focusing on the problem of contingency, Mabogo More, South Africa’s most eminent living existential philosopher, brings to the fore the centrality of existence preceding essence and the gravity of its reversal in the ongoing, pernicious phenomenon of racism. It is a tour de force reflection from a philosopher who lived through the horrors of apartheid and who now, facing the challenges of its reassertion among other forms of oppression by other means in the twenty-first century, reminds us of the value of committed liberatory praxis. In true existential fashion, More is not trapped in exegesis but places Sartre’s thought, instead, as an ally in conversation with Black existential philosophy from Fanon to Biko to contemporary Africana existential philosophers, wherein the political imperatives of solidarity and struggle are conditions for dignity, freedom, and—as is increasingly clear—breath and life. -- Lewis R. Gordon, head and professor of philosophy, UCONN-Storrs, and visiting professor of philosophy, University of JohannesburgSartre on Contingency is an exceptional examination and articulation of antiblack racism as an imposed reality of black people whose only ‘mistake’ was to be born black. Mabogo Percy More offers a seamless and timely analysis of the illogical and immoral expectation, created by whiteness in its god complex, for black people to legitimize their (incontrovertible) humanity in a bid to liberate themselves from racial oppression. More asks us to see through the contingency of antiblack racism and reject whiteness as the true humanity with the help of the Sartrean ontological framework. -- Mpho Tshivhase, Senior lcturer in philosophy, University of Pretoria Product Description The problem of antiblack racism has a long history in the world, with as long a history of thinkers writing and theorizing against it. Few philosophers have opposed institutionalized racialism as vehemently as Jean-Paul Sartre, both in his intellectual work and in his political action.This book argues that not only does a relationship exists between Sartre’s existentialist philosophy and antiracism but also, more profoundly, that it is precisely his existential ontology that informs his anti-racist social and political commitments. He sought to examine the complexity of our existence as conscious bodies and thus provides the ontological basis for understanding the situation of a black person in an antiblack world.This book is about how Sartre’s philosophy – especially his early writings – can be applied to address the problem of racism against black people. It argues that among the many concepts in Sartre’s work that are useful in understanding the problem of racism against black people, the philosophical notion of contingency is one of the most significant. Contingency in Sartre is the view that whatever exists, need not exist, and that therefore it can be changed; that the fact that one is born white or black without their choice, has no moral weight at all in treating others as though they are responsible for what they are. In this book Mabogo More contends that through Sartre’s philosophical notion of contingency, he provides us with the ammunition to understand and deal with racism broadly, and antiblack racism in particular. About the Author Mabogo Percy More is a former professor of philosophy at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and is currently professor of philosophy at the University of Limpopo, South Africa. He is the author of many journal articles and his latest book is Steve Biko: Philosophy, Identity and Liberation (HSRC Press, 2017). He was awarded the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement award by the Caribbean Philosophical Association in 2015.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Looking Through Philosophy in Black: Memoirs (Global Critical Caribbean Thought)

This autobiography is a series of interrelated true-life events and decisions taken by a black philosopher that highlight the human drama unfolding in the inferno of the South African apartheid system. Mabogo More details what it means to be a black philosopher in an anti-black apartheid academic world. More's life story traces his emergence in philosophy and his pursuit of a philosophical dream, a dream that takes him from his South African black ghetto township to American and British universities and finally to the prestigious Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement award. His extraordinary philosophical autobiography, with an emphasis on Africana existentialism that takes into account issues of racism, identity, liberation, freedom, alienation, responsibility and bad faith, is supplemented by three key essays from his intellectual career representing the extraordinary contribution he has made to Africana philosophy and black existentialism.

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