Maternal Ethics and Other Slave MoralitiesIn Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities which includes the first extended philosophical discussion of the works of Frederick Douglass, Cynthia Willett puts forward a novel theory of ethical subjectivity that is aimed to counter prevailing pathologies of sexist, racist Eurocentric culture. Weaving together accounts of the self drawn from African-American and European philosophies, psychoanalysis, slave narratives and sociology, Willett interrogates what Hegel locates as the core of the self: the desire for |
Contents
Tactile Sociality | 31 |
11 | 37 |
31 | 47 |
3 | 53 |
4 | 68 |
Dissonance and Social Struggle 5555 | 95 |
Hegels Master Narrative of Freedom | 105 |
Will over Desire | 106 |
Agency in the Slave | 148 |
Nietzschean and Psychoanalytic Explanations | 151 |
The Pathology of the Oppressor | 152 |
The Healing Power of Music | 154 |
The Rhythms and Tones of Freedom | 156 |
Friedrich Nietzsche versus Frederick Douglass | 157 |
Dubois on Freedom | 159 |
Free Spirits | 160 |
Freedom as SelfMastery | 113 |
The Slave as the Liminal Self | 119 |
The African American Experience of Slavery | 120 |
Black DialecticWhite Dialectic | 126 |
A Slave Narrative of Freedom | 129 |
The Ecstacy of Struggle | 132 |
Douglass versus Foucault on Literacy | 135 |
Liberal and Dialectical Constructions of Manhood | 137 |
Black Spirituality | 143 |
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