Doing Philosophy Personally: Thinking about Metaphysics, Theism, and Antiblack Racism

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Index  absolute Thou, 24, 30, 44 African American, definition of, 15; neoconservatives, 145–46n61; religious traditions, 115–16; term identifying cultural heritage, 93, 97, 126n33, 143n42 Africana persons, 12, 14 Allison, Henry E., 127n4 Anderson, Victor, 116, 141n16 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 16; as racial eliminativist, 92–93 bad faith, 16, 80, 83–84, 91–96, 111, 152n11; individual bad faith, 84; institutional bad faith, 84, 91 Beloved Community, ideal of, 121, 153n19 black religious humanism, as opposed to Kurtz’s humanism, 149n5 Borgmann, Albert, as scientific realist, 138n67; neo-Heideggerian critique of technology, 58, 66–72; technological devices, 63–67; thing, as understood by, 68–70, 137n42 Busch, Thomas W., 134n69 {  } Collins, James, 26 colonialism (racialized), in Francophone Caribbean, 102–3; in subSaharan Africa, 103; in the Americas, 105–6, 110–11. See also Fanon, Frantz colonialization of the lifeworld, 147–48n25 Cone, James H., 116, 118, 120, 149n6 creative fidelity, 24–25, 44, 75, critical race theory, 150–51n10 disponsibilité (Marcel), 37, 47 Douglass, Frederick, 115 Dussel, Enrique, critique of Western modernity and imperialism , 108–10, 147n24 egalitarianism, Marcel’s criticism of, 75 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 104–5 existential phenomenology, as practiced by Gordon, 82–83, 108; as practiced by Marcel, 6, 38–39, 51, 130–31n19. See also Gordon, Lewis R., phenomenological account of antiblack racism; reflective method  index extraphilosophical commitments, in Marcel, 13, 48–54, 134n82; in Royce, Josiah, 53; of Africana phenomenology, 141n10 Fanon, Frantz, 85–86, 105–6, 110–11, 146n9 fidelity, 24, 37, 43–46, 50–51; abides in being, 36; different than moral constancy, 131n44. See also creative fidelity fraternity, in Marcel’s sociopolitical thought, 75 freedom, 83–84, 118; circumscribed by facticity, 114 genuine communities, 75–76 Gordon, Lewis R., 2, 10; and black people as ‘‘problem people,’’ 82, 86–88; hypervisibiity of black people, 84–85; phenomenological account of antiblack racism, 81–91; Purdue University anecdote, 90–91 Habermas, Jürgen, 9, 147–48n25 Hanley, Katharine Rose, 132nn56, 60 Harman, Graham, 123–24n5 Harris, Leonard, 92, 105, 143n41, 146n9 Heidegger, Martin, 9, 50, 133n66; and onto-theology, 125n17; enframing environing world, 65, 136n29 Henry, Paget, 141n10, 147–48n25 Hill, Jason, 94, 144n45 holy, 23, 40; experienced as divine revelation, 64 humanocentric theism, 120; and functional ultimacy of persons, 118; and theodicy, 119, 152–53n14; God as divine lure, 149–50n7 Husserl, Edmund, 9, 51, 108, 130– 31n19, 139n81, 147n20; lived body, 28, 128n20 idealism in Marcel’s early philosophy, 26–27, 133n66 Is God a White Racist? (Jones), 117 James, William, 2 Jones, William R., 117–20, 148 Kant, Immanuel, 20, 33, 121, 153n18; distinction between phenomenal and noumenal, 20–23; epistemological interpretation of, 21–22; phenomenological interpretation of, 22–24. See also Allison, Henry E.; Levinas, Emmanuel; Scheler, Max Kantian transcendental tradition, 19–20 King, Martin Luther Jr., 115, 121, 153n19 Kierkegaard, Søren, and teleological suspension of the ethical, 52 Kristeva, Julia, 135n14 Kurtz, Paul, 149n5 laissez-faire antiblack racism, 98–99. See also racism late Western modernity, 11–12, 14, 18, 56–59, 66, 73, 78, 112–15, 125n, 139n. See also Western modernity Levinas, Emmanuel, 40, 85 Locke, Alain, 2, 17, 52 López, Ian F. Hanley, 125n33 Marcel, Gabriel, 2; being, 25–26, 36, 45; broken world, 58–59; critique index  of Islam (Man Against Mass Society), 147n13; critique of Marxist social theory, 77–78; critique of technology, 64–66, 72–73; ethico-religious insight, 11; existence, 25, 32–33, 128n19; God, 30–32; incarnation, 26–28; learned from Husserl’s Crisis to criticize scientism, 139n81; metaproblematic , 36–38, 49; mystery, 32–33; neglecting depersonaliziation of Africana persons, 102–10; neo-Socratic thinker, 51, 134n69; object, 129–30n7; objectivity , 24–30; ontological exigency for being, 11, 32, 39–40, 43; participate in being, 39, 134–35n1; phenomenology of having, 41–43; prayer, 31; problematic , 35–36, 41, 46, 73; revelation, 40; sacred, 64–65; soul, 31, 60, 130n16; sociopolitical thought, 73–78, 138n74; techniques of degradation (Man Against Mass Society), 60–61; technology, definition of, 63 metaphysics, analytic metaphysics, 7–8; as conceptual storytelling, 17; continental metaphysics, as envisioned by late Heidegger and Habermas, 9; Marcellian metaphysics as phenomenological metaphysics, 6, 8–10, 17, 113–14 Michaud, Thomas A., 73 Mounier, Emmanuel, 77, 139n91 multitude, the, 138n72 neocolonalism, 102, 111. See colonalism neurotheology, 31, 128–29n32 noumenal, 21–22. See also Kant, Immanuel O’Mallery, John B., 126n1 Okihiro, Gary...