"This book examines the political economy of death within the Black experience in South Africa by theorizing death as a productive and generative process, reconstructing an understanding of the limitations of dominant discourses, and giving rise to a radical political imagination"--
This book examines the political economy of death within the Black experience in South Africa by theorizing death as a productive and generative process, reconstructing an understanding of the limitations of dominant discourses, and giving rise to a radical political imagination.
The Politics of Death in Anti-colonial Praxis by Gregory Maxaulane explores the political conditions necessary for revolution and freedom. Located at the intersection of continental philosophy and Black studies, this book examines the political economy of death within the Black experience in South Africa by theorizing death as a productive and generative process. Maxaulane provides a deeper understanding of the politics of death by focusing on how continental philosophy and Black studies treat the problem of praxis as well as the parallels and convergences between the models of praxis they sustain. This book is a comprehensive exploration of these fields, providing critical engagements with the evolution of ideology and the anti-colonial praxis in South African history. Challenging liberal democratic doctrines that have undermined the claims of Black radical imagination, Maxaulane argues that the political economy of death allows us to break from tradition through a concept of freedom not grounded in transcendentalism.
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This is a brilliant and definitive study of what Maxaulane calls the 'political economy of death.' Western colonialism and slavery established their domain primarily by deploying deadly violence along with the accompanying threat of death against those who resisted. Working its way critically through a plethora of African, African-American, and Euro-American theoretical texts, addressing diverse viewpoints and configuration of a political economy that has been woven around the threat of death, The Politics of Death culminates in an apposite and fascinating reading of Steve Bikos revolutionary political praxis in the face of death within the South African context. This book will be a watershed in the field. -- Abdul R. Janmohamed, University of California, Berkeley
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This book examines the political economy of death within the Black experience in South Africa by theorizing death as a productive and generative process, reconstructing an understanding of the limitations of dominant discourses, and giving rise to a radical political imagination.
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Role of Marxian Ideology in the Politics of the Transition in
South Africa
Chapter 2: Black Impasses to the Hegemonic Logic of Liberal Democratic
Constitutionalism
Chapter 3: The Dialectics of Death and the Problem of the Political
Chapter 4: An Analysis of the Conditions for Revolution and Freedom in Bikos
Theory of Black Consciousness
Conclusion
References
About the Author
Gregory Maxaulane teaches social and political theory in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town.
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