{"product_id":"the-unfinished-self-noah-blake-9798184016894","title":"The Unfinished Self: A Phenomenology of Hybrid Being","description":"What if hybridity is not a mixture to be celebrated, but a way of being to be understood? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor a century, the \"mixed\" subject of Latin America-and of Brazil above all-has been caught between two distortions. One celebrates racial mixture as harmonious synthesis, a national myth of racial democracy. The other, in exposing that myth, dissolves the lived subject into a category, a statistic, a false consciousness. The Unfinished Self refuses both. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on the rigorous phenomenological method of Edmund Husserl, Noah Blake argues that hybridity is an undeniable sociological fact-but a fact that only phenomenology can reach in its full reality. Beneath the celebratory ideology and beneath the reductive critique lies a deeper truth: hybridity is a lived structure of incompletion, sedimented from a colonial history, carried in the flesh, and irreducible to the language of either harmony or pure domination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the center of the book stands the moreno-reinscribed from a category of racial classification into a phenomenological category: the name for a mode of being whose meaning never closes, and whose dignity is found not in the completion it lacks but in the lucid inhabiting of its own unfinished condition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a sustained dialogue with Gilberto Freyre (read through Ricardo Benzaquen de Araújo), Néstor García Canclini, Stuart Hall, Frantz Fanon, and the contemporary critical phenomenologists, Blake builds a combative argument: that the phenomenology of the mestizo subject possesses an analytic priority over the critical sociology of race-exposing the latter's two failures, its reduction of the lived to the structural and its erasure of the very subject it means to defend. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLucid, rigorous, and ethically uncompromising, The Unfinished Self offers a new vocabulary for thinking identity at the fault lines of the modern world: not as harmony, not as a structural position to be measured, but as phenomenological exposure-a wound and a lucidity at once. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReaders of Linda Martín Alcoff, Lewis Gordon, Sara Ahmed, and Lisa Guenther will find here a bold new contribution to critical phenomenology and Latin American thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Noah Blake\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798184016894\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d","brand":"Noah Blake","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173898428671,"sku":"9798184016894","price":13.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-unfinished-self-noah-blake-9798184016894","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}