Being-while-Black-and-Alienated in Apartheid South Africa

This is fundamentally a text about race and antiblack racism and their subsequent production of the problem of alienation (separation) of human beings from one another, from their bodies, and from themselves, globally, but with distinct and conscious focus on the historical context of apartheid and “post”-apartheid South Africa through the psychological lens of one of the country’s first and distinguished clinical psychologists, Noel Chabani Manganyi.

Product Information

Format:

210mm x 168mm

Pages:

312

ISBN-13:

978-0-7961-1025-1

Publish Year:

2023

Rights:

World Rights

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Psychologist-Philosopher

Chapter 2: The Philosopher-Psychologist

Chapter 3: The Concept of Alienation

Chapter 4: Apartheid and Alienation

Chapter 5: Black Thinkers and Alienation

Chapter 6: Being-Black-in-the-World

Chapter 7: The Black Body and Alienation

Chapter 8: Racism and Alienation

Chapter 9: Alienation Manifested

Chapter 10: Supersession of Alienation (Dis-alienation)

Chapter 11: Conclusion and Critique

Mabogo P. More is a retired professor of philosophy at the following institutions: University of the North, University of Durban-Westville, University of KwaZulu-Natal, and University of Limpopo. He is currently an Associate Researcher at the University of Limpopo and has over the years published over 50 journal articles, book chapters and three books, two of which are: Biko: Philosophy, Identity and Liberation. (2017: HSRC Press) and Looking Through Philosophy in Black. (2019: Rowman & Littlefield).