PHIL 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Shema Yisrael, Collective Unconscious

• School: McGill University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 375
• Professor: Alia Al- Saji

Document Summary

Racial consciousness is a conscious process but also understands our language. It is there in a structuring way. It is acquired overtime in our childhood, in media, in our education, We learn our stereotypes from our education, also from our parents. This is one of the ways which i make meaning in the world. The lived experience of the black man. To be black in this context is already starting to go on a political route of one"s consciousness. One could argue that it tries to bracket embodiment but fails because consciousness needs to be embodied. Sets it up as a particular encounter. Small boy on a train in france, who says oh look a negro. Phenomenological assumption of body schema but it does not work in the same for everyone.