The Minoritarian and Black Reason: A Philosophico-Literary Investigation

dc.contributor.author Odhiambo, David
dc.date.accessioned 2021-06-14T19:48:53Z
dc.date.available 2021-06-14T19:48:53Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.description This record is a placeholder for the introduction to Dr. David Odhiambo's published book <em>The Minoritarian and Black Reason: A Philosophico-Literary Investigation</em>. Publisher restrictions prevent repository access for two years after publication. Public availability for the introductory chapter is scheduled for May 14, 2023. en_US
dc.description.abstract The Minoritarian and Black Reason: A Philosophico-Literary Investigation addresses the question, how can we understand and relate responsibly to others who differ from us in our everyday concerns? The work looks at theories about difference in a variety of philosophical texts and novels from the early modern and modern periods to examine their various approaches to the problem of representational language. The author discusses how these distinct methods of thought present the Black-figure, and critiques how imagined blackness or Black reason willfully looks away from the African presence. Central to this inquiry are key concepts from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in a description of the minoritarian as a non-representational method that discloses affective intensity in naked life (zoe), beings of the sensible (sentiendum), and personae. So, it is presented as a third term in an ungrounded field of experience composed of assemblages or social networks. Hence, the book deconstructs a unified structuralist ontology to propose a line of flight from a model of logic used to objectify and reproduce identities of people from a varied sphere of political rights (bios). en_US
dc.identifier.citation Odhiambo, D. (2021). <em>The Minoritarian and Black Reason: A Philosophico-Literary Investigation</em>. Rowman & Littlefield. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10790/6162
dc.language.iso en-US en_US
dc.publisher Rowman & Littlefield en_US
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dc.title The Minoritarian and Black Reason: A Philosophico-Literary Investigation en_US
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