
Published online:
22 September 2022
Published in print:
27 January 2022
Online ISBN:
9780226816432
Print ISBN:
9780226816418
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I. Gadamer and Friends I. Gadamer and Friends
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II. The Language of Black Solidarity II. The Language of Black Solidarity
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Chapter
One The Politics of Black Friendship: Gadamer, Baldwin, and the Black Hermeneutic
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Pages
12–39
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Published:January 2022
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Thompson, Mark Christian, 'The Politics of Black Friendship: Gadamer, Baldwin, and the Black Hermeneutic', Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory (Chicago, IL , 2022; online edn, Chicago Scholarship Online, 22 Sept. 2022), https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226816432.003.0002, accessed 18 May 2025.
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Thompson, Mark Christian. "The Politics of Black Friendship: Gadamer, Baldwin, and the Black Hermeneutic." In Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory University of Chicago Press, 2022. Chicago Scholarship Online, 2022. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226816432.003.0002.
Abstract
Chapter One identifies the type of philosophy most often used in the theorization of Black Art in the 1960s. The “new hermeneutic” being introduced in the United States from Germany in the mid 1960s spoke well to the theological underpinnings of race-based literary sensibilities. After a detailed discussion of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophy of language, the chapter examines some of James Baldwin’s writings on language, collectivity, and literary self-fashioning. Baldwin theorizes a Black hermeneutic for the critical analysis of African American literature in relation to social formation, racial self-determination, and power.
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