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	title = {White ignorance},
	isbn = {978-1-04-003402-6},
	abstract = {This chapter discusses the potential contributions of phenomenology to the critical analysis of what Charles Mills calls ‘white ignorance.' White ignorance is a systemic form of not knowing that naturalizes white supremacy by marginalizing some forms of knowledge and authorizing others. The chapter begins by considering a methodological issue: How does one produce phenomenological knowledge about white ignorance? Is it possible to perform the epoché on a form of not knowing that resists conscious awareness? Bonnie Mann’s interpretation of the role of the epoché in feminist phenomenology helps address these methodological questions. The second section considers the relevance of Merleau-Ponty’s concept of the habit body for a phenomenology of white ignorance. The third section builds on this analysis through an engagement with phenomenologies of race. The fourth and final section analyzes white ignorance as a form of bad faith and suggests a phenomenological practice of unknowing that acknowledges the impossibility of ‘correcting’ bad faith through the ‘good faith’ of sincerity. © 2024 selection and editorial matter Steffen Herrmann, Gerhard Thonhauser, Sophie Loidolt, Tobias Matzner, and Nils Baratella; individual chapters, the contributors.},
	language = {English},
	booktitle = {The {Routledge} {Handbook} of {Political} {Phenomenology}},
	author = {Guenther, L.},
	year = {2024},
	doi = {10.4324/9781003197430-42},
	pages = {398--409},
}

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