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The following chapter aims at a critical comprehension of ethnicity and class through a philosophical approach. Instead of an exhaustive account, this chapter examines only recent portrayals of these notions in philosophy, science, and film. Having this proposition in mind, this chapter follows different stages of critical comprehension concerning these terms. Thus, ethnicity and class are put under a critical lens as scientific categories in general and specifically as categories for human sciences, as associational elements, specifically through a psychoanalytic reading of a recent cultural production, the film Get Out (2017), and finally as a philosophical case study of the Badiouian notion of the generic. Furthermore, this chapter will discuss the need for opening ethnicity and class as categories for thinking to further explorations conditioned by the idea of political procedure. The chapter also explores psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic formulations in order to examine subjectivity, ethnicity, and class. This means to discuss their approximations and disparities regarding different theoretical points of view, having Badiou’s communist hypothesis at the horizon of possibility in the name of political creations. Through a critical short-circuit between these various instances, this chapter presents important questions regarding sociability and alterity.
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Gonsalves, R.L.C. (2019). Ethnicity and Class Nexus: A Philosophical Approach. In: Ratuva, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0242-8_54-1
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