Husserl and Racism at the Level of Passive Synthesis

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ID8409607
AuthorsH A Nethery (Florida Southern College, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume49
Issue4
Pages280-290
Publication date2018-10-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-1773 • E-ISSN: 2332-0486
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00071773.2018.1451218
OpenAlexW2791810099
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited6

A number of philosophers within critical race theory use phenomenology to describe the way in which their identities are always already constituted as delinquent within the consciousness of white people (prior to any active reflection), and how their own identity fractures in relation to this white gaze – a fracturing that creates unspeakable ontological, and ultimately physical, violence. Though these philosophers are already doing phenomenology in their work, there is a deeper level of analysis that has yet to be given. Specifically, an account has not yet been provided as regards the production of the white gaze within the consciousness of white people. That is, how is an already racialized world of experience produced prior to any active reflection? In this essay, I engage George Yancy’s famous elevator example, using Edmund Husserl’s concepts of apperception, internal time consciousness and passive synthesis to give a phenomenological description of the production of a pre-reflective racialized world

Aesthetics · Apperception · Consciousness · Epistemology · Gaze · Identity (music) · Phenomenology (philosophy) · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · White (mutation) · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology

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