An Africana Philosophy of Temporality: Homo Liminalis

Springer Verlag (2018)
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Abstract

This book is a timely intervention in the areas of philosophy, history, and literature. As an exploration of the modern political order and its racial genealogy, it emerges at a moment when scholars and activists alike are wrestling with how to understand subject formation from the perspective of the subordinated rather than from dominant social and philosophical modes of thought. For Sawyer, studying the formation of racialized subjects requires a new imagining of marginalized subjects. Black subjectivity is not viewed from the static imaginings of social death, alienation, ongoing abjection, or as a confrontation with the treat of oblivion. Sawyer innovates the term "fractured temporality," conceptualizing Black subjects as moving within and across temporalities in transition, incorporated, yet excluded, marked with the social death of Atlantic slavery and the emergent political orders it etched, and still capable of exerting revolutionary force that acts upon, against, and through racial oppression.

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Conclusion

This chapter summarizes the work that has been done in the previous sections and proposes that, ultimately, consideration of the relationship of spatiality to temporality must be reintroduced at the “end” in order to trace the argument to its logical conclusion.

The Genealogy of Morals

This section endeavors to frame the Atlantic World’s plantation generally and Jefferson’s Monticello specifically as factories of particular types of Exalted and Abject beings. Sally Hemings, the property and mistress of Thomas Jefferson, is examined as a particular type of revolutionary actor that ... see more

Othello the Negro

This chapter relies upon a close reading of several texts: Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk, Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks, Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice, Melville’s Benito Cereno, and Ellison’s Invisible Man. The philosophical framework in this section is established by ... see more

It’s About Time

This chapter is principally concerned with how the abstract body takes on typologies of internal and external temporality that establish the subject as variously Elemental, Abject, or Exalted. An essential intervention here is to reframe canonical Hegelian dialectics as a relationship between three ... see more

The Ontological Body

This chapter takes up Genesis as the locus of foundations of Western political thought generally and in particular the creation of types of Beings that are produced from a generic materiality that then produces a generic form of being. This formation allows reconsideration of Jean-Luc Nancy’s assert... see more

Introduction

This section is principally concerned with framing the project and in particular elaborating the set of ten “Presuppositions” that together assemble the architecture of the structure of sovereignty as a temporal continuum that represents the centerpiece of the argument. Additionally, the notion of “... see more

The Genealogy of (Im)Morals

This section endeavors to frame the Atlantic World’s plantation generally and Jefferson’s Monticello specifically as factories of particular types of Exalted and Abject beings. Sally Hemings, the property (enslaved woman) and mistress (mother of his children) of Thomas Jefferson, is examined as a pa... see more

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