RAUTENBERG, NICLAS (2024) Ta-Nehisi Coates's<i>Between the World and Me</i>: A Phenomenology of Racialized Conflict. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 10 (1). pp. 168-184. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2022.41
RAUTENBERG, NICLAS (2024) Ta-Nehisi Coates's<i>Between the World and Me</i>: A Phenomenology of Racialized Conflict. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 10 (1). pp. 168-184. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2022.41
RAUTENBERG, NICLAS (2024) Ta-Nehisi Coates's<i>Between the World and Me</i>: A Phenomenology of Racialized Conflict. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 10 (1). pp. 168-184. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2022.41
Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This article investigates the structure of racialized conflict experience. Embarking from a conflict event in Ta-Nehisi Coates's autobiography<jats:italic>Between the World and Me</jats:italic>and contrasting the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Alfred Schutz with insights from Black phenomenology, I argue that Coates's experience discloses conflictual, but intertwined, modes of being-in-the-world. Further, it presents an instantiation of a particular kind of conflict, i.e., corporeal conflict. Corporeal conflict applies whenever the body is politicized, i.e., when it becomes the marker for traits representative of a rival political group. Understood this way, racialized conflict is always political. I conclude the article with some remarks on the shortcomings of two dominant conflict theories in political philosophy and the potential for an alternative, phenomenological approach that enables new ways of engaging the other in conflict. The analysis is preceded by a meditation on the role of the White researcher in critical philosophy of race.</jats:p>
Item Type: | Article |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Essex Law School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 15 Mar 2023 18:45 |
Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2024 19:15 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/35215 |
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