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  1. Kant's Third Thoughts on Race.Robert Bernasconi - 2011 - In Stuart Elden & Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Reading Kant's Geography. State University of New York Press. pp. 291--318.
  2. Hegel at the Court of the Ashanti.Robert Bernasconi - 1998 - In Stuart Barnett (ed.), Hegel After Derrida. New York: Routledge. pp. 41--63.
    Hegel called world history a court of judgement, a world court, and in his Lectures on the Philosophy of World History he took Africans before that court and found them to be barbaric, cannibalistic, preoccupied with fetishes, without history, and without any consciousness of freedom. -/- In this paper, after rehearsing some of the more familiar objections to Hegel's verdict against Africa, I turn the tables and put Hegel on trial. More specifically, given that much of Hegel's account is directed (...)
     
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    Critical philosophy of race: essays.Robert Bernasconi - 2023 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    The fifteen essays collected here set out to demonstrate why the critical philosophy of race needs to take a historical turn. Genealogies of the concepts of both race and racism are deployed to clarify why some of the dominant strategies for combatting racism tend either miss the target altogether or give it only a glancing blow. For example, relying on biology to reject the concept of race as a way of disarming racism misses the fact that racism precedes the biology (...)
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    Re-Reading Levinas.Robert Bernasconi & Simon Critchley (eds.) - 1991 - Indiana University Press.
    These essays provoke new responses to the work of the eminent French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas through an analysis of how the problematics of reading, deconstruction, feminism, and psychotherapy complicate and deepen Levinas's account of ...
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  5. Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings.Adriaan T. Peperzak, Simon Critchley & Robert Bernasconi (eds.) - 1996 - Indiana University Press.
    Emmanuel Levinas has exerted a profound influence on 20th-century continental philosophy. This anthology, including Levinas's key philosophical texts over a period of more than forty years, provides an ideal introduction to his thought and offers insights into his most innovative ideas. Five of the ten essays presented here appear in English for the first time. An introduction by Adriaan Peperzak outlines Levinas's philosophical development and the basic themes of his writings. Each essay is accompanied by a brief introduction and notes. (...)
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    The Cambridge Companion to Lévinas.Robert Bernasconi & Simon Critchley (eds.) - 2002 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Emmanuel Levinas is now widely recognised alongside Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre as one of the most important Continental philosophers of the twentieth century. His abiding concern was the primacy of the ethical relation to the other person and his central thesis was that ethics is first philosophy. His work has also had a profound impact on a number of fields outside philosophy such as theology, Jewish studies, literature and cultural theory, psychotherapy, sociology, political theory, international relations theory and critical legal (...)
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  7. The Provocation of Levinas: Rethinking the Other.Robert Bernasconi & David Wood (eds.) - 1988 - New York: Routledge.
    There is a growing recognition of Levinas's importance. It can in part be attributed to an increasing concern that twentieth-century continental philosophy seems to have no place for ethics. In making ethics fundamental to philosophy, rather than a problem to which we might one day return, Levinas transforms continental thought. The book brings together some of the most interesting and far-reaching responses to the work of Levinas, in three different areas: contemporary feminism, psychotherapy, and Levinas's relation to other philosophers. It (...)
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    The Third Party. Levinas on the Intersection of the Ethical and the Political.Robert Bernasconi - 1999 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 30 (1):76-87.
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    Race.Robert Bernasconi (ed.) - 2001 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    This volume provides an introduction to the concept of race within philosophy. It gives an overview of the most important contributions by continental philosophers to the understanding or race as well as presenting a general review of recent philosophical discussions.
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  10. Heidegger's Destruction of Phronesis.Robert Bernasconi - 1990 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 28 (S1):127-147.
  11. Will the real Kant please stand up-The challenge of Enlightenment racism to the study of the history of philosophy.Robert Bernasconi - 2003 - Radical Philosophy 117:13-22.
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    Slavery's absence from histories of moral and political philosophy.Robert Bernasconi - 2024 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 62 (S1):54-67.
    At a time when many institutions of higher learning are reflecting on their past complicity with chattel slavery, either in terms of the sources of their funding or their use of slave labor, philosophy as an academic discipline has been largely silent about its own complicity. Questions surrounding the legitimacy and practice of slavery were a regular part of moral philosophy courses at universities from the sixteenth century until its abolition. However, the discussions of slavery found in the dominant textbooks (...)
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    Frantz Fanon’s Engagement with Phenomenology: Unlocking the Temporal Architecture of Black Skin, White Masks.Robert Bernasconi - 2020 - Research in Phenomenology 50 (3):386-406.
    Attention to the role of phenomenology in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks is fundamental to an appreciation of the book’s progressive structure. And it is through an appreciation of this structure that it becomes apparent that the book’s engagement with phenomenology amounts to an enrichment, not a critique, of existential phenomenology, although the latter might appear to be the case at first sight, given Fanon’s rejection of certain aspects of Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Black Orpheus.” This is demonstrated through an examination (...)
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  14. Crossed Lines in the Racialization Process: Race as a Border Concept.Robert Bernasconi - 2012 - Research in Phenomenology 42 (2):206-228.
    Abstract The phenomenological approach to racialization needs to be supplemented by a hermeneutics that examines the history of the various categories in terms of which people see and have seen race. An investigation of this kind suggests that instead of the rigid essentialism that is normally associated with the history of racism, race predominantly operates as a border concept, that is to say, a dynamic fluid concept whose core lies not at the center but at its edges. I illustrate this (...)
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  15. African Philosophy’s Challenge to Continental Philosophy.Robert Bernasconi - 1997 - In Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (ed.), Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader. Cambridge, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 183--196.
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    Derrida and Différance.David Wood & Robert Bernasconi (eds.) - 1988 - Northwestern University Press.
    A Society of the Friends of Difference would have to include Heraclitus, Nietzsche, Saussure, Freud, Adorno, Heidegger, Levinas, Deleuze, and Lyotard among its most prominent members.
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    Where Is Xenophobia in the Fight against Racism?Robert Bernasconi - 2014 - Critical Philosophy of Race 2 (1):5-19.
    What is at stake in identifying some actions or speech acts as racist as opposed to regarding them as “merely” xenophobic? If we understand racism as a system, how does this impact the way we address the distinction between the terms racism and xenophobia? My attempt to address these questions is guided by two observations drawn from the genealogy of the term racism. First, in the English language, the word was initially a synonym for Nazi anti-Semitism. The strategies to combat (...)
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  18. What is the question to which 'substitution'is the answer.Robert Bernasconi - 2002 - In Robert Bernasconi & Simon Critchley (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Lévinas. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 234--251.
     
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  19. Exchange on Hegel’s racism.Joseph Mccarney & Robert Bernasconi - 2003 - Radical Philosophy 119.
  20. The double face of the political and the social: Hannah Arendt and America's racial divisions.Robert Bernasconi - 1996 - Research in Phenomenology 26 (1):3-24.
  21. The contradictions of racism : Locke, slavery, and the two treatises.Robert Bernasconi & Anika Maaza Mann - 2005 - In Andrew Valls (ed.), Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy. Cornell University Press.
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    The Provocation of Levinas: Rethinking the Other.Krzysztof Ziarek & Robert Bernasconi - 1990 - Substance 19 (1):95.
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    Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy.Robert Bernasconi (ed.) - 2003 - Indiana University Press.
    This volume provides an indispensable critical introduction to new perspectives on thinking about race and racism.
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  24. Levinas and the Struggle for Existence.Robert Bernasconi - 2005 - In Eric Sean Nelson, Antje Kapust & Kent Still (eds.), Addressing Levinas. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press. pp. 170--184.
     
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    Must We Avoid Speaking of Religion? The Truths of Religions.Robert Bernasconi - 2009 - Research in Phenomenology 39 (2):204-223.
    Heidegger already recognized in the 1920s the difficulties facing a phenomenology of religion, but the problems are greatly multiplied once one recognizes that many of the so-called religions were constituted as such only in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and that the "invention" of these religions was according to an idea of religion shaped by Christianity. By investigating the incompatible attempts of Kant and Hegel to negotiate that idea, I identify the genealogy of the double bind whereby today (...)
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    Ottobah Cugoano’s Place in the History of Political Philosophy: Slavery and the Philosophical Canon.Robert Bernasconi - 2023 - In Critical philosophy of race: essays. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 123-141.
    Ottobah Cugoano’s Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery is perhaps the most powerful attack on slavery of the late eighteenth century. It is also remarkably relevant still today for its account of responsibility, its attack on gradualism, and its understanding that any judgment about the means appropriate to ending slavery should be proportionate to the evil of slavery itself, which was considerable. Cugoano’s significance is established by contrasting his arguments with those of other philosophers from Francis Hutcheson to (...)
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  27. Race and earth in Heidegger's thinking during the late 1930s.Robert Bernasconi - 2010 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 48 (1):49-66.
    In 1934 Heidegger offered an account of what a Volk is in terms of the existential analytic of Dasein set out in Being and Time , but soon after he abandoned this framework as he began the task of overcoming metaphysics. Integral to this new task was a confrontation with the racial policies not just of the Nazis but also of the Allies because he believed that the Western philosophical tradition was deeply implicated in these policies. Against this background, this (...)
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    With What Must the History of Philosophy Begin?Robert Bernasconi - 2003 - Proceedings of the Hegel Society of America 16:35-49.
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    Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing.Robert Bernasconi - 1993 - Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanity Books.
    Robert Bernasconi explores in the context of Heidegger's thought a number of questions of far-reaching concern: what is the role of literary examples within philosophy? Is art dead? What is the relation of art to nature? Is there a place for the idea of a "people" in art and literary theory, and in philosophy? Is the history of philosophy to be written as a narrative? What is the status of ethics within philosophy? What place does philosophy give to praxis? What (...)
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    The question of language in Heidegger's history of being.Robert Bernasconi - 1985 - London: Macmillan.
    This study is not an attempt to render an account of Heidegger's history of Being; that history is not a story and cannot be retold as one. This book is concerned with the insight that introduces us to the history of Being and the transformation in our re.
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    White on White/Black on Black.George Yancey, Cornel West, Kal Alston, Molefi Kete Asante, Bettina G. Bergo, Robert Bernasconi, Janine Jones, Chris Cuomo, Clarence Sholé Johnson, John H. Mcclendon Iii, Greg Moses, Monique Roelofs, Crispin Sartwell & Anna Stubblefield - 2005 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    White on White/Black on Black is a unique contribution to the philosophy of race. The text explores how 14 philosophers, 7 white and 7 black, philosophically understand the dynamics of the process of racialization.
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    The ethics of suspicion.Robert Bernasconi - 1990 - Research in Phenomenology 20 (1):3-18.
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    Almost always more than philosophy proper.Robert Bernasconi - 2000 - Research in Phenomenology 30 (1):1-11.
  34. Deconstruction and the Possibility of Ethics.Robert Bernasconi - 1987 - In John Sallis (ed.), Deconstruction and philosophy: the texts of Jacques Derrida. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 122--39.
     
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  35. Different styles of eschatology: Derrida's take on Levinas' political messianism.Robert Bernasconi - 1998 - Research in Phenomenology 28 (1):3-19.
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    Heidegger and the invention of the western philosophical tradition.Robert Bernasconi - 1995 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 26 (3):240-254.
  37. On deconstructing nostalgia for community within the west: The debate between Nancy and Blanchot.Robert Bernasconi - 1993 - Research in Phenomenology 23 (1):3-21.
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    On Heidegger’s Other Sins of Omission.Robert Bernasconi - 1995 - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 69 (2):333-350.
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    The third party.Robert Bernasconi - 2003 - In Claire Elise Katz & Lara Trout (eds.), Emmanuel Levinas. New York: Routledge. pp. 1--1.
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    A most dangerous error: The Boasian myth of a knock-down argument against racism.Robert Bernasconi - 2019 - Angelaki 24 (2):92-103.
    A genealogy of the English word racism shows that its dominant sense was shaped by Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Ashley Montagu around 1940 in order to establish a broad consensus against a narrow form of antisemitism found among some anthropologists in Nazi Germany. Their strategy, which was to challenge the biological concept of race on which racism, on their account, was said to be parasitic was subsequently adopted by UNESCO in 1950 and is still advocated by many today. But (...)
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    Levinas.Robert Bernasconi - 1988 - In Hugh J. Silverman (ed.), Philosophy and Non-philosophy Since Merleau-Ponty. New York: Routledge. pp. 1--232.
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    How to read Sartre.Robert Bernasconi - 2007 - New York: W.W. Norton & Co..
    'I too was superfluous' -- 'Outside, in the world, among others' -- 'Hell is other people' -- 'He is playing at being a waiter in a café' -- 'In war there are no innocent victims' -- 'I am obliged to want others to have freedom' -- 'The authentic Jew makes himself a Jew' -- 'The eyes of the least favoured' -- 'A future more or less blocked off' -- 'Man is violent'.
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    Heredity and Hybridity in the Natural History of Kant, Girtanner, and Schelling during the 1790s.Robert Bernasconi - 2014 - In Susanne Lettow (ed.), Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences. State University of New York Press. pp. 237-258.
  44. Bridging the abyss: Heidegger and Gadamer.Robert Bernasconi - 1986 - Research in Phenomenology 16 (1):1-24.
  45. No exit: Levinas' aporetic account of transcendence.Robert Bernasconi - 2005 - Research in Phenomenology 35 (1):101-117.
    In this paper I present Levinas' account of excendence in On Escape and Existence and Existents and show its continuity with his subsequent discussions of transcendence in Time and the Other, Totality and Infinity, and Otherwise than Being. I argue that Levinas' critique of the traditional idea of identity plays a decisive role in establishing the continuity between these various accounts as it provides the key to unlocking his account of transcendence as a formal structure. However, the meaning of trascendence (...)
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    The Fate of the Distinction Between Praxis and Poiesis.Robert Bernasconi - 1986 - Heidegger Studies 2:111-139.
  47. Levinas's Ethical Critique of Levinasian Ethics.Robert Bernasconi - 2012 - In Scott Davidson & Diane Perpich (eds.), Totality and infinity at 50. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Duquesne University Press.
     
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    Toward a Phenomenology of Human Rights.Robert Bernasconi - 2011 - Eco-Ethica 1:83-96.
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  49. Sartre’s Gaze Returned.Robert Bernasconi - 1995 - Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 18 (2):201-221.
    At the beginning of 1945, Sartre made his first visit to the United States. It proved an important moment for him. According to Annie Cohen-Solal, it marked the beginning of his concern with political struggle: “It is far from home, far from his daily reality and his socio-historical connivances, that his first endorsement of a purely social cause takes place.” The cause was that of African-Americans. On his return to France, Sartre described for Le Figaro how shocked he was by (...)
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  50. Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth as the Fulfillment of Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason.Robert Bernasconi - 2010 - Sartre Studies International 16 (2):36-47.
    Frantz Fanon was an enthusiastic reader of Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason and in this essay I focus on what can be gleaned from The Wretched of the Earth about how he read it. I argue that the reputation among Sartre's critics of the Critique as a failure on the grounds that it was left incomplete should take into account its presence in Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth . Their shared perspectives on the systemic character of racism and colonialism, (...)
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