SUNY Press Catalog - Spring 2009 - (Page 35) philosophy Vallega Sketch 11/12/08 Black / PMS 2655C A VOLUME IN THE SUNY SERIES IN CONTEMPOR ARY CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY TOWArD A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF rACE Falguni A. Sheth Examines how liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination. SENSE AND FINITUDE Alejandro A. Vallega Toward a Political Philosophy of Encounters at the limits of language, art, and the Political Alejandro A.Vallega Takes Heidegger’s later thought as a point of departure for exploring the boundaries of post-conceptual thinking. Falguni a. Sheth is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory at Hampshire College and the coeditor (with David Colander and Robert E. Prasch) of Race, Liberalism, and Economics. A volume in the SUNY series, Philosophy and Race Robert Bernasconi and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, editors MArCH • 256 pp $24.95 pb 978-0-7914-9398-4 $74.50 hc 978-0-7914-9397-7 directtext e e www.sunypress.edu 35 MArCH • 224 pp 2 b/w photographs $65.00 jacketed hc 978-1-4384-2509-2 dt P Sheth Toward a Political Philosophy of RACE Timely, controversial, and incisive, Toward a Political Philosophy of Race looks uncompromisingly at how a liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination. Drawing on the examples of the internment of U.S. citizens and residents of Japanese descent, of Muslim men and women in the contemporary United States, and of Asian Indians at the turn of the twentieth century, Falguni A. Sheth argues that racial discrimination and divisions are not accidents in the history of liberal societies. Race, she contends, is a process embedded in a range of legal technologies that produce racialized populations who are divided against other groups. Moving past discussions of racial and social justice as abstract concepts, she reveals the playing out of race, racialization of groups, and legal frameworks within concrete historical frameworks. Falguni A. Sheth “The black experience has long been taken as paradigmatic for theorists of race … Thus Falguni Sheth’s exploration of how this dominant paradigm may blind us to the multiple ways in which populations can be, and have been, racialized is a very valuable contribution. This is the first philosophy text on race to focus in detail on Arabs and Asians.” — Charles W. Mills, author of The Racial Contract AC RR AC E Sense and Finitude Encounters at the Limits of Language, Art, and the Political Sense and Finitude interrogates one of continental philosophy’s central insights: the temporality or finitude of philosophical thought. Juxtaposing the views of such philosophers as Plato, Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Gadamer, and Derrida on art, poetry, and non-Western cultures with the insights of those very artists, poets, and cultures interpreted by them, Alejandro A.Vallega elucidates a certain sensibility fundamental to philosophical thought once it has come face-to-face with its concrete finitude—in the sense that philosophical ideas are always exposed to interpretation, transformation, and loss. By addressing philosophy’s exposure to experience beyond its own delimitations,Vallega shows how such investigations can enrich the philosophical enterprise. alejandro a. Vallega is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Latin American Studies at California State University Stanislaus. He is the author of Heidegger and the Issue of Space:Thinking on Exilic Grounds. A volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Dennis J. Schmidt, editor http://www.sunypress.edu http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61767 http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61761
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