We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Sipping Whiskey in Memphis: A Conversation Between Robert Bernasconi and Jonathan Judaken on Racism and Existentialism.
- Authors
Bernasconi, Robert; Judaken, Jonathan
- Abstract
Robert Bernasconi (RB): Jonathan, to get us started, tell me about your background and what brought you to focus on the intersections of existentialism and racism? Jonathan Judaken (JJ): Well, I grew up in a Jewish family in Johannesburg in Apartheid South Africa. And I think all of those very specific facets of my upbringing are important to the trajectory of my work. My work has been a process of unthinking and dismantling and coming to terms with a past, a family, a legacy that very much defines who I am. I'm attempting to understand myself within the broader frameworks within which I grew up. I left South Africa permanently when I was twelve. This was in the immediate aftermath of the Soweto Riots that were steered by the Black Consciousness movement in South Africa, under the leadership of Steve Biko, a thinker whose framework is so clearly influenced by existentialism.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; APARTHEID; EXISTENTIALISM; WHISKEY; RACISM
- Publication
Sartre Studies International, 2021, Vol 27, Issue 2, p10
- ISSN
1357-1559
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/ssi.2021.270203