{"product_id":"black-is-beautiful-isbn-9781405150620","title":"Black is Beautiful","description":"\u003ci\u003eBlack is Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e identifies and explores the most significant philosophical issues that emerge from the aesthetic dimensions of black life, providing a long-overdue synthesis and the first extended philosophical treatment of this crucial subject.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe first extended philosophical treatment of an important subject that has been almost entirely neglected by philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of art\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTakes an important step in assembling black aesthetics as an object of philosophical study\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUnites two areas of scholarship for the first time – philosophical aesthetics and black cultural theory, dissolving the dilemma of either studying philosophy, or studying black expressive culture\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings a wide range of fields into conversation with one another– from visual culture studies and art history to analytic philosophy to musicology – producing mutually illuminating approaches  that challenge some of the basic suppositions of each\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWell-balanced, up-to-date, and beautifully written as well as inventive and insightful\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWinner of The American Society of Aesthetics Outstanding Monograph Prize 2017\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Assembly, Not Birth 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Inquiry and Assembly 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 On Blackness 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 On the Black Aesthetic Tradition 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Black Aesthetics as\/and Philosophy 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Conclusion 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 No Negroes in Connecticut: Seers, Seen 32\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Setting the Stage: Blacking Up Zoe 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Theorizing the (In)visible 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Theorizing Visuality 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Two Varieties of Black Invisibility: Presence and Personhood 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 From Persons to Characters: A Detour 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Two More Varieties of Black Invisibility: Perspectives and Plurality 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Unseeing Nina Simone 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Conclusion: Phronesis and Power 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Beauty to Set the World Right: The Politics of Black Aesthetics 77\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Blackness and the Political 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Politics and Aesthetics 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Politics–Aesthetics Nexus in Black; or, \"The Black Nation: A Garvey Production\" 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Autonomy and Separatism 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Propaganda, Truth, and Art 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 What is Life but Life? Reading Du Bois 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Apostles of Truth and Right 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 On \"Propaganda\" 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Conclusion 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Dark Lovely Yet And; Or, How To Love Black Bodies While Hating Black People 104\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Circumscribing the Topic: Definitions and Distinctions 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Circumscribing the Topic, cont'd: Context and Scope 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Cases 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Reading the Cases 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Conclusion 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Roots and Routes: Disarming Authenticity 132\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 An Easy Case: The Germans in Yorubaland 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 A Harder Case: Kente Capers 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Varieties of Authenticity 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 From Exegesis to Ethics 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Kente Case, Revisited 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Make It Funky; Or, Music's Cognitive Travels and the Despotism of Rhythm 155\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Beyond the How]Possible: Kivy's Questions 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Stimulus, Culture, Race 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Preliminaries: Rhythm, Brains, and Race Music 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Flaw in the Funk 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 (Soul) Power to the People 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Funky White Boys and Honorary Soul Sisters 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Conclusion 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Conclusion: \"It Sucks That I Robbed You\"; Or, Ambivalence,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppropriation, Joy, Pain 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePaul C. Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e teaches Philosophy and African American studies at the Pennsylvania State University, where he has also served as Head of the Department of African American studies. Professor Taylor has provided commentary on race and politics for newspapers and radio shows on four continents. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRace: A Philosophical Introduction \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity, 2003; 2nd ed. 2013), has recently completed \u003ci\u003eOn Obama\u003c\/i\u003e (Routledge, 2015), and is one of the editors of the \u003ci\u003eRoutledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming). \u003cp\u003eThroughout black history and culture, aesthetics has long been a central concern for black thinkers and activists, and yet this important subject has been almost entirely neglected by philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of art.\u003ci\u003e Black is Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e provides a long-overdue synthesis, identifying and exploring the most significant philosophical issues that emerge from the aesthetic dimensions of black life, both in the fine arts and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaylor forges a basic philosophical framework for comprehending black aesthetics. The book consists of eight chapters, each of which discusses a web of related themes and phenomena. Each chapter begins with one or two illustrative real-world examples, and then uses the complexities of these opening cases to introduce the relevant issues.\u003c\/p\u003e This highly engaging book enables readers to see the multiplicity of the practices and themes gathered within the field and effectively overturns conceptual barriers that obstruct adequate recognition of the meanings of black cultural works. \u003ci\u003eBlack is Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e provides an original theory that fills a void in the expressive and theoretical resources in aesthetics literature.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988844757221,"sku":"NP9781405150620","price":100.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405150620.jpg?v=1761781747","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/black-is-beautiful-isbn-9781405150620","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}