Komarine Romdenh‐Romluc
Biographic Data
| ID | 8748350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Komarine Romdenh‐Romluc |
| GIVEN NAMES | Komarine |
| FAMILY NAME | Romdenh‐Romluc |
| SIGNATURE | ROMLUC K R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Philosophy The University of Sheffield Sheffield UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4257-6377 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Fanon, the body schema, and white solipsism
Fanon's conception of the body schema plays a central role in his philosophy. The body schema is the body's “grasp” or “sense” of itself. Fanon argues that in the encounter between the Black and white person the body schema “crumbles,” so that the Black person experiences herself as object‐like in various ways. Fanon's focus is the Black person's experience because his aim is to provide the Black person with tools for emancipation. Nevertheless, …
Fanon, the recovery of African history, and the Nekyia
Black history is the study of the human past that focuses on people with black skin: the things those people have done, the past societies of Africa, world events from the perspective of Black people, and so on. Nowadays, the recovery of Black history is increasingly seen as important in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.1 People campaign for its inclusion in school curricula; there are documentaries exploring past African civilisations, and unive…
Now‐thoughts
‘Now’‐thoughts are often categorised alongside ‘I’‐thoughts. The word ‘I’‐ (including its counterparts in other languages) and the thoughts typically expressed with it have long been a source of fascination for philosophers. ‘I’‐ seemingly behaves in peculiar ways, which many writers take to reflect some interesting features of the thoughts it typically expresses. Whilst the similarities between the behaviour of ‘I’‐ and ‘now’‐ have often been no…
Habit and the History of Philosophy
"For Aristotle habit was a fundamental aspect of human nature, and for William James it was the "enormous flywheel" of society. In both the history of philosophy and contemporary research it is acknowledged as a fundamental topic in ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of action and phenomenology. This major volume, written by a team of international contributors, is an outstanding collection that offers a thorough and diverse philosophical explo…
First-person thought and the use of ‘I’
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First-person thought and the use of ‘I’
Fanon, the recovery of African history, and the Nekyia
Black history is the study of the human past that focuses on people with black skin: the things those people have done, the past societies of Africa, world events from the perspective of Black people, and so on. Nowadays, the recovery of Black history is increasingly seen as important in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.1 People campaign for its inclusion in school curricula; there are documentaries exploring past African civilisations, and unive…
Now‐thoughts
‘Now’‐thoughts are often categorised alongside ‘I’‐thoughts. The word ‘I’‐ (including its counterparts in other languages) and the thoughts typically expressed with it have long been a source of fascination for philosophers. ‘I’‐ seemingly behaves in peculiar ways, which many writers take to reflect some interesting features of the thoughts it typically expresses. Whilst the similarities between the behaviour of ‘I’‐ and ‘now’‐ have often been no…
Habit and the History of Philosophy
"For Aristotle habit was a fundamental aspect of human nature, and for William James it was the "enormous flywheel" of society. In both the history of philosophy and contemporary research it is acknowledged as a fundamental topic in ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of action and phenomenology. This major volume, written by a team of international contributors, is an outstanding collection that offers a thorough and diverse philosophical explo…
Fanon, the body schema, and white solipsism
Fanon's conception of the body schema plays a central role in his philosophy. The body schema is the body's “grasp” or “sense” of itself. Fanon argues that in the encounter between the Black and white person the body schema “crumbles,” so that the Black person experiences herself as object‐like in various ways. Fanon's focus is the Black person's experience because his aim is to provide the Black person with tools for emancipation. Nevertheless, …
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (2 works) · Philosophy, Science, and History (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works)