Race, Time, and Utopia

Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation

William M. Paris (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-769887-7 (ISBN)

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Racial injustice, at its core, is the domination of time. Utopia has been one response to this domination. The racially dominated are not free to define what counts as "progress," they are not free from the accumulation of past injustices, and, most importantly, they are not free from the arbitrary organization of work in capitalist labor markets. Racially unjust societies are forms of life where the justifications for how to organize time around life, labor, and leisure are out of the hands of the dominated. In Race, Time, and Utopia, William Paris provides a theoretical account of utopia as the critical analysis of the sources of time domination and the struggle to create emancipatory forms of life.

Rather than focusing on inclusion and equality before the law, as found in liberal theories of racial injustice, Paris analyses the neglected "utopian" tradition of justice in black political thought that insists justice can only be secured through the transformation of society as a whole. This transformation is nothing less than the democratic transformation of how organize and narrate our shared time. Bringing into conversation the work W.E.B Du Bois, Martin Delany, Marcus Garvey, Frantz Fanon, and James Boggs with the critical theory of Karl Marx, Ernst Bloch, Rahel Jaeggi, and Rainer Forst, Paris reconstructs a social theory and normative account of forms of life as the struggle over how time will be organized, asking "Can there be freedom without a new order of time?"

William Paris is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is also an Associate Editor for the journal Critical Philosophy of Race. His research focuses on History of African American philosophy, 20th century continental philosophy, and political philosophy. He has published on Frantz Fanon and Gender, Sylvia Wynter's phenomenology of imagination, and C.L.R. James and Hannah Arendt. He is also a co-host of the podcast What's Left of Philosophy? His website is williammparis.com.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Racial Justice and the Problem of Consciousness
Chapter 2: Race and the Fragmentation of Social Time: Critical Theory and the Utopian Hermeneutics of Souls
Chapter 3: Contesting the Polity: Black Nationalism, Utopia and the Reconstruction of Racial Life
Chapter 4: Racial Fetishism and the Alienation of Time: A Fanonian Critical Theory of Utopia
Chapter 5: Justifying Freedom: James Boggs and the Utopia of Black Power
Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	11.01.2025
Reihe/Serie	Philosophy of Race
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	119 x 201 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-769887-5 / 0197698875
ISBN-13	978-0-19-769887-7 / 9780197698877
Zustand	Neuware