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| Additional Physical Format: | Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover (DE-604)BV046798122 Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson |
| ISBN: | 9781479834556 1479834556 1479890049 9781479890040 |
| OCLC Number: | 1197701517 |
| Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 303 Seiten) : Illustrationen. |
| Series Title: | Sexual Cultures |
| Responsibility: | Iman Zakiyyah Jackson. |
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Publisher Synopsis
Within Western philosophy, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson shows, Black people historically have been 'animalized.' In examining these limitations of Western philosophy, Becoming Human shows that the fundamental idea of 'humanity' that has gained widespread credence in the West is flawed ... Jackson makes an intervention by firmly placing Black literary and visual culture into philosophy. * Public Books * The sheer beauty, force, and ingenuity of Zakiyyah Iman Jackson's aesthetic strategies and gestures are on display as she performs the very risks and rewards she conjures. Offering a brilliant intervention into questions of the human, each of Jackson's readings profoundly unsettle our presumed relations and prevailing ontologies. She reads western philosophy and science through African diasporic literatures, theories, and visual art to open us up to what is made-what might be made-in excess of the matrix of antiblackness and its constitutive forms of the human, animal, gender, and matter. In the book's range of knowledges, reach, and scope, no field nor discipline would not benefit from a real and sustained engagement with the work that Jackson undertakes here. -- Christina Sharpe, author of <i>In the Wake</i> Brilliantly reframes the relation between blackened life and the category of the human, by shifting the terms of the debate. She maintains that neither dehumanization nor exclusion are sufficient to explain antiblackness and its descending scale of life. In so doing, Jackson's 'ontological plasticity' reveals the controlled depletion that produces the liquidity of life and fleshly existence, and enables blackened life to be anything, which is also to say nothing at all. Jackson's rigorous and sustained meditation is relentless in exploring the possibilities for a generative disordering of being, inhabiting other senses of the world, and imagining the field of relation in ceaseless flux and directionless becoming. -- Saidiya Hartman, author of <i>Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments</i> This is a demanding, complex, and highly significant contribution to the literature on the nature of the moral and philosophical distinctions between human and nonhuman creatures...The implications for theological anthropology are, undoubtedly, shattering. * Literature and Theology * Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between Blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World breaks open the rancorous debate between Black critical theory and posthumanism [...] What emerges is a radically unruly sense of a being, knowing, feeling existence: one that necessarily ruptures the foundations of 'the human. * Black Perspectives * Jackson states that real change will require "revolutionizing" the human body, and her prescription for freeing oneself from the limitations of gender and species requires the same "plasticity" by which Blackness and anti-Blackness continue to be defined. * CHOICE * The book presents a compelling argument and offers worthwhile suggestions. I will certainly have my undergraduates wrestle with some of this material in upcoming semesters. * Religions Journal * Read more...
