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Hello and welcome to New Books and Philosophy, a podcast channel with the New Books Network.
I'm Sarah Tyson, Associate Professor of Philosophy, the University of Colorado, Denver.
I'm co-host of the channel, along with Carrie Fichtor and Blaine Neufeld.
Together we bring you conversations with philosophers about their new books, drawing from a wide range of areas of contemporary philosophical inquiry.
Today's interview is with John Drabinski, professor in the Department of African American and Africana Studies, with a joint appointment in the Department of English at the University of Maryland.
His book, So Unimaginable a Price, Baldwin and the Black Atlantic, is just out from Northwestern University Press.
What happens if we turn to James Baldwin, not just for the amazing quotations and excellent photos, but as a critical theorist?
What if we read his nonfiction philosophically?
What can Baldwin help us understand and do now?
In so unimaginable a price, Drabinsky takes up this project to give a sustained philosophical reading of Baldwin's nonfiction.
Drabinski does so to understand the event of Baldwin's contributions in the context of the Black Atlantic.
Baldwin was a thinker who looked to the United States, even when in exile.
But he was also in the broader context of the mid-20th century Black Atlantic, of which he was surely aware but wrote little.
What if we read for what was absent from Baldwin's texts?
John Drabinski, welcome to New Books and Philosophy.
Me too.
Well, will you tell us a little bit about yourself and your background as a theorist and how you came to write this book on Baldwin?
And yeah, let's go because it is so much about the United States, but it's in the context of the Black Atlantic.
So can you tell us more about why you sought to understand Baldwin in relation to the mid-20th century Black Atlantic milieu of thinkers and writers?
Yeah.
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