{"product_id":"existential-liberation-critique-a-shahid-stover-9781733551069","title":"Existential Liberation Critique","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eExistential Liberation Critique \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eis an insurgent reckoning of the Black radical imagination that seizes discursive responsibility for the task of interrogating the Real and enunciating Revolt through a philosophical commitment to reconstitute the fundamental question of the meaning of human 'being' in dynamic correlation with emancipatory imperatives towards socio-historical struggles of human liberation against Empire. Rather than settle for an analytic abdication to the normative gaze of modernity, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eExistential Liberation Critique\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ecommunicates a compelling lived experience of epistemic rupture in philosophical dialogue with the anti-slavery dialectic of\u003cstrong\u003e Frederick Douglass\u003c\/strong\u003e, the existential Marxism of\u003cstrong\u003e Jean-Paul Sartre\u003c\/strong\u003e and the decolonial phenomenology of\u003cstrong\u003e Frantz Fanon\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat can the Revolt of human 'being' against \u003cem\u003echattel\u003c\/em\u003e slavery tell us about the human condition? What does it mean to be human? And, how does this question of the meaning of human 'being' speak to socio-historical imperatives of human liberation against established structures of power in our contemporary world that are inscribed with an originary violence of \u003cem\u003echattel\u003c\/em\u003e slavery, and thus systematically disavow ethical responsibility and disallow human consideration when confronted with the assertion of Black subjectivity-as-human 'being'?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eExistential Liberation Critique\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e brings vital questions to the fore by the very staunchness of \u003cstrong\u003eStover's\u003c\/strong\u003e spiritual refusal to discursively retreat from the lived cost of sustained insurgent philosophical engagement. Existential liberation critique is thus communicated as an unrestrained interpretive method that develops conceptually out of the emancipatory trajectory of \u003cstrong\u003eStover's\u003c\/strong\u003e philosophical intentionality, in particular, by means of the concentrated focus and discursive force Black radical thought requires to interrogate the Real and enunciate Revolt against the normative gaze of western imperialist power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. Shahid Stover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1733551069\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781733551069\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cannae Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.52d","brand":"A. Shahid Stover","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852908671231,"sku":"9781733551069","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/existential-liberation-critique-a-shahid-stover-9781733551069","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}