There is a Danger that Anti-Racism is Fighting yesterdayâ€™s Racism â€” Robert Bernasconi speaks to PWD

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Published on Jun 7, 2021
ROBERT BERNASCONI speaks to Philosophy World Democracy from his garden in Memphis. DANIEL J. SMITH and the editorial team prepared the questions which range from the meaning of Â« western Â» in philosophy; racism and the philosophical canon; on the peculiar friendship of the philosophers; the racisms of Nietzsche and Heidegger; the future of metaphysics; and football. Bernasconi invites us to investigate the invention of Â«the Occident Â» in the history of philosophy from the 18th century and he calls for a practice of reading today which remembers the texts of philosophy without idolatry.

Robert Bernasconi is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. Besides his seminal contributions in the form of The Question of Language in Heidegger's History of Being (1985), Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing (1993), How to Read Sartre (2007), are his numerous essays and edited and co-edited volumes on nineteenth and twentieth century European philosophy, notably Time and Metaphysics (1982), Re-Reading Levinas (1991), The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (2001). Bernasconi has spearheaded research in critical philosophy of race through texts like Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy (with Sybil Cook, 2003), Race, Hybridity, and Miscegenation (2005) through the interpretations of the works of Otttobah Cugoano, Frederick Douglas, Antenor Firmin, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Frantz Fanon. He is a founding editor of the journal Critical Philosophy of Race and the also the editor of Levinas Studies and Eco-Ethica.

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