Racism in Mind

Published by Cornell University Press 2004

Racism in Mind

Edited by: Michael P. Levine and Tamas Pataki

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501727658

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This philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of racism brings together some of the most influential analytic philosophers writing on racism today. The introduction by Tamas Pataki outlines the historical and thematic development of conceptions of...

Author / Editor information

Michael P. Levine is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Australia and, in 2004, visiting professor at the University of Colorado's Center for Humanities and Arts. He is a coauthor of Integrity and the Fragile Self and editor of The Analytic Freud. Tamas Pataki is Honorary Senior Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne, where he also lectures, and Honorary Fellow of Deakin University. He is the author of Wish-fulfilment in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: The Tyranny of Desire.

Reviews

Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oregon, and author of Philosophy of Science and Race:

Racism in Mind is noteworthy for its focus on racism, rather than racial categories, the concept of race, or racial identity. The greatest strength of the book is its specialized, interdisciplinary combination of philosophy and psychology. It includes specifically psychological analyses not often seen in a philosophical study of racism.

Raimond Gaita, Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of London King's College:

Philosophers are good at making many and fine distinctions. When that does not undermine our capacity to see the forest for the trees, it is a great service to thought. Racism in Mind provides such a service at a time when it is desperately needed. All the essays in it are of unusually high standard. In this book readers will find the passion and moral seriousness its subject matter deserves, but also the sobriety and discipline that it seldom gets. To read this book is to embark on an intellectual adventure. At the same time, its rigorous attention to evidence and its hard-headed explorations of the psychological and social causes of racism keep readers close to reality. For this achievement its editors deserve high praise.

Michele M. Moody-Adams, Director and Hutchinson Professor, Ethics and Public Life, Cornell University:

Michael P. Levine and Tamas Pataki have assembled an outstanding collection of essays by an impressively broad group of philosophers and social theorists. This is a stimulating and conceptually wide-ranging invitation to intelligent, philosophically informed discussion about the nature, sources, and implications of racism.

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Tamas Pataki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. What Is Racism?
1. The Nature of Racism Michael Dummett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2. Three Sites for Racism: Social Structures, Valuings, and Vice J. L.A. Garcia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
3. What Do Accounts of"Racism" Do? Lawrence Blum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
4. Philosophy and Racism Michael P. Levine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
5. Oppressions: Racial and Other Sally Haslanger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Part II. The Psychology Of Racism
6. Racism as Manic Defense Neil Altman and Johanna Tiemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
7. The Characters of Violence and Prejudice Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
8. Racism and Impure Hearts Lawrence A. Lengbeyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
9. Psychoanalysis, Racism, and Envy Tamas Pataki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Part III. Racism, Morality, Politics
10. Why We Should Not Think of Ourselves as Divided by Race Bernard Boxill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
11. Upside-down Equality: A Response to Kantian Thought Laurence Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
12. The Social Element: A Phenomenology of Racialized Space and the Limits of Liberalism Cynthia Willett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
13. If You Say So: Feminist Philosophy and Antiracism Marguerite La Caze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
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Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Keywords: Philosophy; Philosophy & Religion

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Published: August 6, 2018
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