Achille Mbembe - Crítica da Razão Negra

An erudite and iconoclastic work by one of the greatest theorists of post-colonialism, Crítica da Razão Negra addresses the evolution of racial thought in Europe, rescuing the concept of the Black man and the commodity man.

In a world in which neoliberalism and the reactivation of the logic of race that it engenders have triggered the universalization of the black condition - making the black person the paradigm of a subaltern humanity - Achille Mbembe presents us with a true philosophical programme and denounces models of submission, depredation and exploitation. Unhappy with a daily life in which fellow human beings are still subjected to the mercantile logic that was once that of the plantation and the colony, Crítica da Razão Negra considers the mental decolonization of the once dominant Europe to be urgent in order to combat a phenomenon on a planetary scale: the global racism woven by savage capitalism, in which we will all be the new “blacks”.