Wittgenstein, Aspect Blindness, and White Supremacy

IF 1.3 Q2 ETHNIC STUDIES

Critical Philosophy of Race Pub Date : 2019-07-19 DOI:10.5325/CRITPHILRACE.7.2.0247

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Abstract:Wittgenstein's theory of aspect perception has been taken up by scholars interested in the ways that people take in and interpret visual stimuli. Within this field of inquiry, Wittgenstein proposes the notion of "aspect blindness," the failure of a person to see a particular aspect or expression. An important turn in the use of Wittgenstein's aspect perception has not always been in the ways that deviating perspectives fail to "see" in the same way that the normative category "sees," but in the ways that those on the constructed margins turn a critical eye on the failure of normative "seeing." Using this framework, this article turns to critique the racism and "aspect blindness" embedded in whiteness. It examines Enlightenment scientific racism and the racialized hierarchies used as the justification for excluding some people from the category of humanity. The work finishes by linking with insights developed within the Black Lives Matter movement.

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维特根斯坦，视盲和白人至上

摘要：维特根斯坦的方面知觉理论已经被对人们接受和解释视觉刺激的方式感兴趣的学者所接受。在这个研究领域，维特根斯坦提出了“方面盲”的概念，即一个人看不到特定的方面或表达。使用维特根斯坦的方面感知的一个重要转折并不总是偏离的视角不能像规范范畴“看到”那样“看到”，而是那些处于构建边缘的人对规范“看到”的失败投以批判的眼光，这篇文章转而批判了白人中的种族主义和“方面盲”。它考察了启蒙运动的科学种族主义和种族化的等级制度，这些制度被用作将一些人排除在人类类别之外的理由。这部作品最后结合了“黑人的命也是命”运动中形成的见解。

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Critical Philosophy of Race ETHNIC STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： The critical philosophy of race consists in the philosophical examination of issues raised by the concept of race, the practices and mechanisms of racialization, and the persistence of various forms of racism across the world. Critical philosophy of race is a critical enterprise in three respects: it opposes racism in all its forms; it rejects the pseudosciences of old-fashioned biological racialism; and it denies that anti-racism and anti-racialism summarily eliminate race as a meaningful category of analysis. Critical philosophy of race is a philosophical enterprise because of its engagement with traditional philosophical questions and in its readiness to engage critically some of the traditional answers.