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As an unrelenting polemic of insurgent philosophical essays, aphoristic sketches and epistemological ruptures against the biopolitical pacification of human agency by western imperialist power, Being and Insurrection not only challenges the way we perceive the human condition, but also questions the way our understanding of human 'being' coincides with conceptions of human liberation and the geohistorical possibility of emancipatory social struggle. A. Shahid Stover confronts Empire with a searing philosophical discourse of existential liberation theory rooted in lived Black experience informed by original interrogations of the anti-slavery dialectic of Frederick Douglass, the existential Marxism of Jean-Paul Sartre and the decolonial phenomenology of Frantz Fanon. Written with merciless critical poise and fearless intensity of spiritual purpose, Being and Insurrection challenges the reader with urgent global relevance towards opening new horizons of the radical imagination.

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a text shaped through and through by the urgency of engaging with the lived world . . . works through the dialectical encounter of the consciousness that the normative gaze seeks to produce, and the view of the world created by an insurrectionary consciousness. - Sartre Studies International An outlaw philosopher baad@ss from New York's radical Black leftist intellectual underground. - Daryle Lamont Jenkins, anti-racist/anti-fascist executive director of ONE PEOPLE'S PROJECT Makes what I'm writing seem so mid-twentieth century. - Derrick Bell (R.I.P.), author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well and 'father' of critical race theory. a man and philosopher of the people - LaRose T. Parris, author of Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature

"""a text shaped through and through by the urgency of engaging with the lived world . . . Stover advances a phenomenological conception of human consciousness that builds on Sartrean architecture, using Fanon's insights into the colonization of consciousness. What follows works through the dialectical encounter of the consciousness that the normative gaze seeks to produce, and the view of the world created by an insurrectionary consciousness."" - Sartre Studies International ""An outlaw philosopher baad@ss from New York's radical Black leftist intellectual underground."" - Daryle Lamont Jenkins, anti-racist/anti-fascist executive director of ONE PEOPLE'S PROJECT ""Makes what I'm writing seem so mid-twentieth century."" - Derrick Bell (R.I.P.), author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well and 'father' of critical race theory. ""a man and philosopher of the people"" - LaRose T. Parris, author of Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature"

An outlaw philosopher baad@ss from New York's radical Black leftist intellectual underground. - Daryle Lamont Jenkins, anti-racist/anti-fascist executive director of ONE PEOPLE'S PROJECT Makes what I'm writing seem so mid-twentieth century. - Derrick Bell (R.I.P.), author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well and 'father' of critical race theory. a man and philosopher of the people - LaRose T. Parris, author of Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature

a text shaped through and through by the urgency of engaging with the lived world . . . Stover advances a phenomenological conception of human consciousness that builds on Sartrean architecture, using Fanon's insights into the colonization of consciousness. What follows works through the dialectical encounter of the consciousness that the normative gaze seeks to produce, and the view of the world created by an insurrectionary consciousness. - Sartre Studies International An outlaw philosopher baad@ss from New York's radical Black leftist intellectual underground. - Daryle Lamont Jenkins, anti-racist/anti-fascist executive director of ONE PEOPLE'S PROJECT Makes what I'm writing seem so mid-twentieth century. - Derrick Bell (R.I.P.), author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well and 'father' of critical race theory. a man and philosopher of the people - LaRose T. Parris, author of Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature

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A. Shahid Stover is an avant-garde African-American writer/philosopher and Editor-in-Chief of The Brotherwise Dispatch, a quarterly journal of radical theory, social critiques and emancipatory aesthetics.

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