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Description

1. xi, 394 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "In Of Effacement, David Marriott endeavors to demolish established opinion about what blackness is and reorient our understanding of what it is not in art, philosophy, autobiography, literary theory, political theory, and psychoanalysis. With the critical rigor and polemical bravura which he displayed in Whither Fanon? Marriott here considers the relationships between language, judgement and effacement, and shows how effacement has become the dominant force in anti-blackness. Both skeptically and emphatically, Marriott presents a series of radical philosophical engagements with Fanon's "is not" (n'est pas) and its "black" political truth. How does one speak - let alone represent - that which is without existence? Is blackness n'est pas because it has yet to be thought as blackness? And if so, when Fanon writes of blackness, that it is n'est pas (is not), where should one look to make sense of this n'est pas? In Of Effacement, Marriott anchors these questions by addressing the most fundamental perennial questions concerning the nature of freedom, resistance, mastery, life and liberation, via a series of analyses of such key figures as Huey Newton, Nietzsche, Malcolm X, Edward Said, Georges Bataille, Stuart Hall, and Lacan. He thus develops the basis for a reading of blackness by recasting its effacement as an identity, while insisting on it as a fundamental question for philosophy"--

Series statement

1. Inventions: black philosophy, politics, aesthetics

Uniform title

1. Inventions (Series)

Subject

1. Philosophy, Black
2. Black people > Race identity > Philosophy
3. Identity (Philosophical concept)
4. Philosophie noire
5. Personnes noires > Identité ethnique > Philosophie
6. Identité
7. identity

Contents

1. N'est pas -- Nigra philologica -- Nègre, figura -- Ontology and lalangue -- Autobiography as effacement -- Crystallization -- On revolutionary suicide -- The real and the apparent -- Corpus exanime.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Marriott, D. S., author.

Title

1. Of effacement : blackness and non-being / David Marriott.

Publisher

1. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2024.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Inventions: black philosophy, politics, aesthetics
2. Inventions (Series)

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other form:

1. Online version: Marriott, D. S. Of effacement. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2023 9781503637269 (DLC) 2023018088

LCCN

1. 2023018087

ISBN

1. 9781503628786 hardcover
2. 1503628787 hardcover
3. 9781503637252 paperback
4. 1503637255 paperback
5. 9781503637269 electronic book