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The Philosophical Treatise of William H. Ferris - Selected Readings from The African Abroad or, His Evolution in Western Civilization (Hardcover)
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The Philosophical Treatise of William H. Ferris - Selected Readings from The African Abroad or, His Evolution in Western Civilization (Hardcover)
Series: Creolizing the Canon
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There exists a very rich, but largely untapped well of African
American philosophical thought, in which many Black thinkers were
debating the role philosophy played in racial advancement among
themselves. One such work that demonstrates this vibrant tradition
is William H. Ferris's The African Abroad or, His Evolution in
Western Civilization: Tracing His Development under Caucasian
Milieu. In 1913, Ferris composed and published one of the most
authoritative encyclopedias of Black (African-American) thought and
Black civilization. The African Abroad was well known and widely
engaged with in Black debates about philosophy, politics and
history through the mid-1900's, yet has largely disappeared from
contemporary scholarship. The text itself offers readers the first
evidence of a Black idealist philosophy of history that seeks to
explain the evolution of the Negro race the world over. The African
Abroad establishes a system of thought starting from God, the
revelation of knowledge God offers humanity through history, and
finally the Negro problem. Ferris offers the world a Black
philosophical perspective currently unavailable in any collection
of Black authors. He is a racial idealist who offers systematic
thinking about the world faced by the Negro in the first decade of
the 20th century. This edition includes Ferris's Philosophical
Treatises from Sections I-III from The African Abroad. Tommy J.
Curry includes two comprehensive introductory essays highlighting
the significance of Ferris's text in the study of African American
philosophy, and the possible contributions Ferris's thoughts on
ethnological thought, the philosophy of history and the role of
race play in the larger field of American philosophy.
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