Biography

Robert Bernasconi is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies at Penn State. He is the editor or co-editor of a number of collections in critical philosophy of race including Race, Miscegenation, and Hybridity (Thoemmes 2005), Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy (Indiana 2003), Race (Blackwell 2001), and The Idea of Race (Hackett 2000). His books include Nature, Culture, Race (S.dert.rn University 2010) and How to Read Sartre (Norton 2007). He has also published numerous articles in critical philosophy of race and on Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Levinas, and Fanon, among others.