{"product_id":"of-effacement-blackness-and-non-being-9781503628786","title":"Of Effacement: Blackness and Non-Being","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOf Effacement\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eWhither Fanon?\u003c\/i\u003e Marriott here considers the relationships between language, judgement and effacement, and shows how effacement has become the dominant force in anti-blackness. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBoth skeptically and emphatically, Marriott presents a series of radical philosophical engagements with Fanon's \"is not\" (\u003ci\u003en'est pas\u003c\/i\u003e) and its \"black\" political truth. How does one speak--let alone represent--that which is without existence? Is blackness \u003ci\u003en'est pas\u003c\/i\u003e because it has yet to be thought as blackness? And if so, when Fanon writes of blackness, that it is \u003ci\u003en'est pas\u003c\/i\u003e (is not), where should one look to make sense of this \u003ci\u003en'est pas\u003c\/i\u003e? 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Marriott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/28\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Inventions: Black Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503628786","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42711259938953,"sku":"9781503628786","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_e43687e7-b911-4c89-aba4-3b7dacb98ee2.jpg?v=1719565496","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/of-effacement-blackness-and-non-being-9781503628786","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}