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In Neither Victim nor Survivor: Thinking toward a New Humanity, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat offers a comprehensive critique of the interrelated concepts of 'victim' and 'survivor' as they have been ideologically distorted in Western thought. Nissim-Sabat proposes that a phenomenological attitude empowers us to overcome the anti-human consequences of both victimization of individuals and peoples and the ideological distortions of concepts that help to perpetuate that victimization

"Creolizing Hannah Arendt is the first book to explore the implications of creolizing Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and thinking for: action, liberation, freedom, power, democracy, identity, racism, prejudice, totalitarianism, immigration, judgment, revolution, decolonial politics, the human, and the modern traditions of Caribbean political thought, Africana philosophy, and existential phenomenology"--

This volume examines various points of contact between Marxism and phenomenology. Although these traditions can appear conceptually incompatible, the contributors reveal productive complementarities on themes such as alienation, reification, and ecology, which illuminate and can help to resolve the crises of contemporary capitalism.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: A Focus on White Privilege Through Personal Narratives -- Part 1 Approaching White Privilege -- 1 Deprivileging Philosophy -- 2 White Privilege and the Problem with Affi rmative Action -- 3 Revisioning "White Privilege" -- Part 2 The Images and Rhetoric of White Privilege -- 4 The Very Image of Privilege: Film Creation of White Transcendentals in Vienna and Hollywood -- 5 Painting and Negotiating Colors -- 6 I Was an Honorary White Man: Reflections on Space, Place, and Origin -- Part 3 Troubling Privilege -- 7 Whiteness as Insidious: On the Embedded and Opaque White Racist Self -- 8 White Privilege: The Luxury of Undivided Attention -- 9 The Costs of Privilege and Dividends of Privilege Awareness: The Social Psychology of Confronting Inequality -- 10 Unpacking the Imperialist Knapsack: White Privilege and Imperialism in Obama's America -- Part 4 Other Perspectives on White and Western Privilege -- 11 Whiteness and Africana Political Economy -- 12 The Great White North: Failing Muslim Canadians, Failing Us All -- 13 Rethinking Ethical Feminism Through uBuntu -- 14 The Afrocentrist Critique of Eurocentrism: The Decolonization of Knowledge -- List of Contributors -- Index