Lexington Books
Pages: 256
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-66697-256-6 • Hardback • January 2025 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
978-1-66697-257-3 • eBook • December 2024 • $50.00 • (£38.00) (coming soon)
Gregory Maxaulane teaches social and political theory in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town.
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Role of Marxian Ideology in the Politics of the Transition in South Africa
Chapter 2: ‘Black Impasses’ to the Hegemonic Logic of Liberal Democratic Constitutionalism
Chapter 3: The Dialectics of Death and the Problem of the Political
Chapter 4: An Analysis of the Conditions for Revolution and Freedom in Biko’s Theory of Black Consciousness
Conclusion
References
About the Author
This is a brilliant and definitive study of what Maxaulane calls the 'political economy of death.' Western colonialism and slavery established their domain primarily by deploying deadly violence along with the accompanying threat of death against those who resisted. Working its way critically through a plethora of African, African-American, and Euro-American theoretical texts, addressing diverse viewpoints and configuration of a political economy that has been woven around the threat of death, The Politics of Death culminates in an apposite and fascinating reading of Steve Biko’s revolutionary political praxis in the face of death within the South African context. This book will be a watershed in the field.
— Abdul R. Janmohamed, University of California, Berkeley