{"product_id":"bad-faith-and-antiblack-racism-by-lewis-r-gordon-9781538179604","title":"Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this contemporary classic, Lewis Gordon presents his iconic, detailed existential phenomenological investigation of antiblack racism as a form of Sartrean bad faith. \u003cem\u003eBad Faith and Antiblack Racism\u003c\/em\u003e explores bad faith, the attitude in which human beings attempt to evade freedom and responsibility, as a constant possibility of human existence. Antiblack racism, the attitude and practice that involves the construction of black people as fundamentally inferior and subhuman, is examined as an effort to evade the responsibilities of a human and humane world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGordon argues that the concept of bad faith militates against any human science that is built upon a theory of human nature and as such offers an analysis of antiblack racism that stands as a challenge to our ordinary assumptions of what it means to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA foundational text in black existentialism, this 30th anniversary edition includes a substantial introduction by Mabogo More to address the ongoing importance of Gordon’s thought in critiquing and resisting racist bad faith in our contemporary moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455528157420,"sku":"9781538179604","price":65.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/81Vg9pd5XsL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774778602","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/bad-faith-and-antiblack-racism-by-lewis-r-gordon-9781538179604","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}