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Invis­i­ble Man, the title of Ralph Ellison’s sem­i­nal 1952 novel refers to the lack of opac­ity of its main pro­tag­o­nist. Rather than read­ing this book as the exem­plary story of a con­crete, sit­u­ated indi­vid­ual – an African-​American intel­lec­tual before and dur­ing the so-​called Harlem Renais­sance – this article-​in-​progress will con­cen­trate on the fig­ure of thought that this cen­tral char­ac­ter expresses.