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Author Tunstall, Dwayne A., author.

Title Doing philosophy personally : thinking about metaphysics, theism, and antiblack racism / Dwayne A. Tunstall
Edition First edition
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 176 pages)
Series American philosophy
American philosophy.
Contents Marcel's Reflective Method -- Transcending Philosophy by Teleologically Suspending Philosophy -- Living in a Broken World -- Lewis Gordon on Antiblack Racism -- Criticizing Marcel's Reflective Method
Summary The author contends that Gabriel Marcel's reflective method is animated by two extraphilosophical commitments. Marcel's first extraphilosophical commitment is to an ethico-religious insight where the highest ontological exigency for human persons is to participate in being. Marcel's second extra-philosophical commitment is to battle the ever-present threat of dehumanisation in late Western modernity. The importance of these two commitments to Marcel's reflective method can be appreciated better if one views it as a teleological suspension of philosophy. Marcel's reflective method is animated by his extra-philosophical commitment to battle the ever-present threat of dehumanization in late Western modernity. Unfortunately, Marcel neglected to examine what is perhaps the most prevalent threat of dehumanization in Western modernity: antiblack racism. Without such an account, Marcel's reflective method is weakened because it cannot live up to its extra-philosophical commitment. Here, the author addresses Marcel's shortcoming
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-172) and index
Notes English
Subject Gordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo), 1962-
Marcel, Gabriel, 1889-1973
SUBJECT Gordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo), 1962-
Marcel, Gabriel, 1889-1973
Gordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo), 1962- fast
Marcel, Gabriel, 1889-1973 fast
Gordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo), 1962- fast/nic/nac
Subject Existentialism.
Racism.
Theism.
Existentialism
existentialism.
PHILOSOPHY -- Religious.
Existentialism
Racism
Theism
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012049721
ISBN 0823252728
9780823252725
9780823251612
0823251616