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Critique of Black Reason by Achille Mbembe

syksyruska's review

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challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

marianne_maschine's review against another edition

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challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

indiaje's review against another edition

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4.0

had to skim through most of it, but even if i had read it closely, a large part of it would've gone over my head. but an important book

evelynisabookworm's review

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challenging informative slow-paced

4.25

eleonorabasty's review

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3.0

Mi sembra un'estensione (un po' fallita) del pensiero di Fanon, che viene apertamente citato in questa raccolta di essays almeno 80 volte. Molte idee e spesso confuse.

elafba11's review

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لم أستطع إكماله بسبب الترجمة السيئة

mattrohn's review

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2.0

The best parts of this book are the reviews of the work of other theorists who write far more coherently. Many parts of the history of colonization which the book relies upon as its basis for the origins of racism and race thinking, which much of the rest of its theory rely on for coherence, are empirically false. This is the real problem with this book, that it involves many plausible sounding explanations while being incredibly unconcerned about how we could even though if these ideas are true, let alone whether they actually are. In the occasional parts where the theory is specific enough to actually be mapped onto real events, it fails the test against reality as often as not
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