METARACIAL : hegel, anti-blackness, and political identity

"A formidable critical project on the limits of antiracist philosophy. Exploring anxieties raised by Atlantic slavery in radical enlightenment literature concerned about political unfreedom in Europe, Metaracial argues that Hegel's philosophy assuages these anxieties for the left. Interpreting Hegel beside Rousseau, Kant, Mary Shelley, and Marx, Terada traces Hegel's transposition of racial hierarchy into a hierarchy of stances toward reality. By doing so, she argues, Hegel is simultaneously antiracist and antiblack. In dialogue with Black Studies, psychoanalysis, and critical theory, Metaracial offers a genealogy of the limits of antiracism"-- Provided by publisher Contents Translations and Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 Metaracial Logic Prologue to Part 1 § 1 The Metaracial § 2 Metaracial Logic and Nationalism § 3 Around Political Identity: Master, Slave, Bondsman, Objects Part 2 Romanticism and the Impossibility of Slavery Prologue to Part 2 § 4 After the Final Limit: Rousseau, Prehistory, and Slavery § 5 The Racial Grammar of Kantian Time § 6 Frankenstein and the “Free Black” Part 3 Nonpolitical Distinctions Prologue to Part 3 § 7 Beautiful Soul/Brave Soul § 8 Bearing to Benefit: Complicity as Therapy § 9 Not “Non- political Distinctions”: A Phrase in Marx Revisited Afterword Acknowledgments Works Cited Index