Existential Liberation Critique

By A Shahid Stover

Existential Liberation Critique is an insurgent reckoning of the Black radical imagination that seizes discursive responsibility for the task of interrogating the Real and enunciating Revolt through a philosophical commitment to reconstitute the fundamental question of the meaning of human 'being' in dynamic correlation with emancipatory imperatives towards socio-historical struggles of human liberation against Empire. Rather than settle for an analytic abdication to the normative gaze of modernity, Existential Liberation Critique communicates a compelling lived experience of epistemic rupture in philosophical dialogue with the anti-slavery dialectic of Frederick Douglass, the existential Marxism of Jean-Paul Sartre and the decolonial phenomenology of Frantz Fanon.

What can the Revolt of human 'being' against chattel slavery tell us about the human condition? What does it mean to be human? And, how does this question of the meaning of human 'being' speak to socio-historical imperatives of human liberation against established structures of power in our contemporary world that are inscribed with an originary violence of chattel slavery, and thus systematically disavow ethical responsibility and disallow human consideration when confronted with the assertion of Black subjectivity-as-human 'being'?

Existential Liberation Critique brings vital questions to the fore by the very staunchness of Stover's spiritual refusal to discursively retreat from the lived cost of sustained insurgent philosophical engagement. Existential liberation critique is thus communicated as an unrestrained interpretive method that develops conceptually out of the emancipatory trajectory of Stover's philosophical intentionality, in particular, by means of the concentrated focus and discursive force Black radical thought requires to interrogate the Real and enunciate Revolt against the normative gaze of western imperialist power.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1733551069
• ISBN13: 9781733551069
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Cannae Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"