Black Prometheus: Race And Radicalism In The Age Of Atlantic Slavery

The Prometheus myth, for several reasons became a crucial site for conceptualizing human liberation in the immanent space of a finite globe structured by white domination and black slavery. The titan's defiant theft of fire from the regnant gods was translated through a high-stakes racial coding either as an 'African' revolt against the cosmic status quo that augured a pure autonomy, a black revolutionary immanence against which idealist philosophers like Hegel defined their projects and slaveholders defended their lives and positions. Or as a 'Caucasian' reflection of the divine power evidently working in favor of Euro-Christian civilization that transmuted the naked egoism of conquest into a righteous heteronomy-Euro-Christian civilization's mobilization by the Absolute or its internalization of a transcendent principle of universal Reason.

• | Author: Jared Hickman
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 26, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 544 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0190272589
• | ISBN-13: 9780190272586