Black America and Existential Incompatibility: Phenomenology, Ethics and the Problem That Is Race

Smith, Avery Merriel

  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-10-25
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 196
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  • ISBN: 9819776740
  • ISBN-13: 9789819776740
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Within the context of W.E.B. Du Bois' question "How does it feel to be a problem?", this volume examines the "problem" using a phenomenological approach, that is to say, in terms of one's experience of such. More specifically, the author explores three points: the Black person's experience of being a problem for White America; her experience of White America as a problem or obstacle for their survival and ability to thrive; and her experience of navigating, negotiating and surviving a world that is presented as a duality. This book deconstructs the world(s) that the Black person experiences by first understanding her as a "Dasein" (the Heideggerian concept of a being that is aware of its being in the world and aware of other beings that are in the world it experiences). In considering the Black person as a Dasein, the author affirms the intrinsic value of her being and, therefore, validates the experience she has of the world in which she finds herself. Finally, this volume incorporates Emmanuel Levinas' philosophy of the face and Paul Ricoeur's study of the self to help craft an understanding of the ontology of human relationship to support the advocacy for an ethical encounter between the Black person and those whom she encounters in both the Black world and the White world in which she must navigate and concurrently exist.

Avery Merriel Smith is an instructor in the Department of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago where she was nominated for the St. Ignatius of Loyola Excellence in Teaching Award in 2022. In 2017 she completed her PhD in Philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. Her specializations are 20th Century Continental Philosophy, ethics and metaphysics. She has had careers in Corporate America and the United Nations, which have influenced her research focus: the ontology of human relationship, corporate ethics and Critical Race Theory. Dr. Smith uses an interdisciplinary approach in her teaching by incorporating philosophy with theology, history, sociology, mathematics, science and the arts and employing various media including cinema and literature. Finally, she has started a master's program in Theology at Loyola University Chicago where she will specialize in Biblical Studies and Biblical Languages.

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在W.E.B. Du Bois提出的問題「成為一個問題的感覺是什麼?」的背景下,本書採用現象學的方法來探討這個「問題」,也就是說,從個體的經驗來看。更具體地說,作者探討了三個要點:黑人在白人美國中作為一個問題的經驗;她對白人美國作為生存和繁榮的問題或障礙的經驗;以及她在一個被呈現為二元對立的世界中導航、協商和生存的經驗。本書通過首先將黑人理解為「Dasein」(海德格爾所提出的概念,指的是一種意識到自身存在於世界中並意識到其他存在於其經驗世界中的存在者)來解構黑人所經歷的世界。考慮到黑人作為Dasein,作者肯定了她存在的內在價值,因此也驗證了她對所處世界的經驗。最後,本書結合了艾曼紐·列維納斯的面孔哲學和保羅·里科的自我研究,以幫助構建人際關係的本體論理解,支持對黑人與她在黑人世界和白人世界中所遇到的人之間進行倫理接觸的倡導。

艾弗瑞·梅里爾·史密斯是芝加哥洛約拉大學哲學系的講師,並於2022年獲得聖伊納爵·洛約拉卓越教學獎提名。她於2017年在意大利羅馬的教宗格雷戈里安大學完成哲學博士學位。她的專業領域包括20世紀大陸哲學、倫理學和形而上學。她曾在美國企業界和聯合國工作,這些經歷影響了她的研究重點:人際關係的本體論、企業倫理和批判種族理論。史密斯博士在教學中採用跨學科的方法,將哲學與神學、歷史、社會學、數學、科學和藝術相結合,並使用各種媒介,包括電影和文學。最後,她在芝加哥洛約拉大學啟動了一個神學碩士課程,專攻聖經研究和聖經語言。

作者簡介

Avery Merriel Smith is an instructor in the Department of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago where she was nominated for the St. Ignatius of Loyola Excellence in Teaching Award in 2022. In 2017 she completed her PhD in Philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. Her specializations are 20th Century Continental Philosophy, ethics and metaphysics. She has had careers in Corporate America and the United Nations, which have influenced her research focus: the ontology of human relationship, corporate ethics and Critical Race Theory. Dr. Smith uses an interdisciplinary approach in her teaching by incorporating philosophy with theology, history, sociology, mathematics, science and the arts and employing various media including cinema and literature. Finally, she has started a master's program in Theology at Loyola University Chicago where she will specialize in Biblical Studies and Biblical Languages.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Avery Merriel Smith 是芝加哥洛約拉大學哲學系的講師,於 2022 年獲提名為聖伊納爵卓越教學獎。她於 2017 年在意大利羅馬的教宗格雷戈里大學完成哲學博士學位。她的專業領域包括 20 世紀大陸哲學、倫理學和形而上學。她曾在美國企業界和聯合國工作,這些經歷影響了她的研究重點:人際關係的本體論、企業倫理和批判種族理論。史密斯博士在教學中採用跨學科的方法,將哲學與神學、歷史、社會學、數學、科學和藝術相結合,並運用各種媒介,包括電影和文學。最後,她已在芝加哥洛約拉大學開設神學碩士課程,專攻聖經研究和聖經語言。