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In this book, philosopher and social critic Lewis Gordon explores
the ossification of disciplines, which he calls "disciplinary
decadence." In response, he offers a theory of what he calls a
"teleological suspension of disciplinarity," in which he encourages
scholars and lay intellectuals to pay attention to the openness of
ideas and purposes on which their disciplines were born. Gordon
builds his case through discussions of philosophy of education,
problems of secularization in religious thought, obligations across
generations, notions of invention in the study of ideas, decadence
in development, colonial epistemologies, and the quest for a
genuine postcolonial language. These topics are examined with the
underlying diagnosis of the present political and academic
environment as one in which it is indecent to think.
Not Only the Master's Tools: African American Studies in Theory and
Practice brings together new essays on the ongoing value of black
thought. In the service of what the editors call epistemological
decolonization of African American studies, the first part examines
the grounding of theoretical reason from various perspectives such
as Africana philosophy, philosophical anthropology, and black
literary theory. The second part offers theoretical explorations of
practical reason as it unfolds in the study of slavery, education,
queerness, politics, and ethics. Responding to Audre Lorde's famous
dictum that "The Master's tools will never dismantle the Master's
house," the editors and these internationally renowned scholars
ask: "Why not instead devote attention to using those and other
tools to build new, more open houses?"Important for anyone
interested in the ongoing importance of ideas, the book is well
suited for students and scholars of Africana studies, philosophy,
literary theory, educational theory, social and political thought,
and postcolonial studies.
Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge collects key
philosophical writings of Lewis R. Gordon, a globally renowned
scholar whose writings cover liberation struggles across the globe
and make field-defining contributions to the philosophy of
existence, philosophy of race, Africana philosophy, philosophy of
human sciences, aesthetics, and decolonization. Gordonâs
expansive output ranges across phenomenology, anti-Blackness,
activist thinkers, sexuality, Fanon, Jimi Hendrix, Black Jewish
struggles, critical pedagogy, psychoanalysis, and Ubuntu
philosophy. Edited by Rozena Maart and Sayan Dey, two decolonial
thinkers from South Africa and India, this reader shifts attention
away from colonial centres of power, encouraging global dialogue
across students, scholars, and activists. Featuring a foreword by
the celebrated novelist and postcolonial thinker, Ngugi wa
Thiong'o, this reader includes a mixture of research articles,
short critical essays, reflections, interviews, poems, and
photographs in the creative pursuit of liberation.
This book offers a theory of disaster in modern and contemporary
society and its impact on the construction of social and political
life. The theory is premised upon what the authors call "the sign
continuum," where disaster spreads across society through efforts
to evade social responsibility for its causes and consequences.
Phenomena generated by such efforts include the social
manifestation of monstrosity (disastrous people and other forms of
living things) and an emerging antipolitics in an effort to assert
rule and order. A crucial development is the attack on speech, a
fundamental feature of political life, as manifested by the
increased expectations of categories of people whose containment
calls for shunning and silence.
This book offers a theory of disaster in modern and contemporary
society and its impact on the construction of social and political
life. The theory is premised upon what the authors call "the sign
continuum," where disaster spreads across society through efforts
to evade social responsibility for its causes and consequences.
Phenomena generated by such efforts include the social
manifestation of monstrosity (disastrous people and other forms of
living things) and an emerging antipolitics in an effort to assert
rule and order. A crucial development is the attack on speech, a
fundamental feature of political life, as manifested by the
increased expectations of categories of people whose containment
calls for shunning and silence. The book closes with an exploration
of the significance of the mythic motif of eliminating monsters
before dawn and its collapse in nihilistic times, where such
conflicts now continue beyond dawn.
The intellectual history of the last quarter of the 20th century
has been marked by the growing influence of Africana thought - an
area of philosophy that focuses on issues raised by the struggle
over ideas in African cultures and their hybrid forms in Europe,
the Americas and the Caribbean. This book presents an introduction
to the field of Africana philosophy and aims to help define this
rapidly growing field. Lewis R. Gordon introduces and discusses
Africana existential thought for a general audience, covering a
range of both classic and contemporary thinkers - from Frederick
Douglass and W.E.B. DuBois to Frantz Fanon, Angela Davis and Naomi
Zack.
Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus
supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to
this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of
Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and
philosopher Frantz Fanon as an exemplar of "living thought" against
forms of reason marked by colonialism and racism. Working from his
own translations of the original French texts, Gordon critically
engages everything in Fanon from dialectics, ethics,
existentialism, and humanism to philosophical anthropology,
phenomenology, and political theory as well as psychiatry and
psychoanalysis. Gordon takes into account scholars from across the
Global South to address controversies around Fanon's writings on
gender and sexuality as well as political violence and the social
underclass. In doing so, he confronts the replication of a colonial
and racist geography of reason, allowing theorists from the Global
South to emerge as interlocutors alongside northern ones in a move
that exemplifies what, Gordon argues, Fanon represented in his plea
to establish newer and healthier human relationships beyond
colonial paradigms.
In this book, philosopher and social critic Lewis Gordon explores
the ossification of disciplines, which he calls "disciplinary
decadence." In response, he offers a theory of what he calls a
"teleological suspension of disciplinarity," in which he encourages
scholars and lay intellectuals to pay attention to the openness of
ideas and purposes on which their disciplines were born. Gordon
builds his case through discussions of philosophy of education,
problems of secularization in religious thought, obligations across
generations, notions of invention in the study of ideas, decadence
in development, colonial epistemologies, and the quest for a
genuine postcolonial language. These topics are examined with the
underlying diagnosis of the present political and academic
environment as one in which it is indecent to think.
Not Only the Master's Tools: African American Studies in Theory and
Practice brings together new essays on the ongoing value of black
thought. Important for anyone interested in the ongoing importance
of ideas, the book is well suited for students and scholars of
Africana studies, philosophy, literary theory, educational theory,
social and political thought, and postcolonial studies.
The intellectual history of the last quarter of this century has been marked by the growing influence of Africana thought - an area of philosophy that focuses on issues raised by the struggle over ideas in African cultures and their hybrid forms in Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean. Existentia Africana is an engaging and highly- readable introduction to the field of Africana philosophy and will help to define this rapidly growing field. Lewis R. Gordon introduces and discusses Africana existential thought for a general audience, covering a wide range of both classic and contemporary thinkers - from Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. DuBois to Frantz Fanon, Angela Davis and Naomi Zack.
'Expansive . . . reminds us that the ultimate aim of Black freedom
quests is, indeed, universal liberation' Angela Y. Davis 'There is
a movement from a suffering black consciousness to a liberatory
Black consciousness in which revelation of the dirty laundry and
fraud of white supremacy and black inferiority is a dreaded truth'
Lewis Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black Existentialism,
has spent decades putting philosophical thought at the heart of
activism for racial justice around the world. In this boldly
original book, he delves into history, art, politics and popular
culture to show how the process of racialization - and its absence
- affects not only how individuals and society perceive black
people but also how black people perceive themselves. Fear of Black
Consciousness traces the ways in which the lived experience of
black people has been rendered invisible in the Western world and
the breadth of rich cultural expression that encapsulates the truth
nonetheless - from ancient African languages to films such as Get
Out and Black Panther. Gordon offers a stunning philosophical and
social critique while highlighting the fundamental role of Black
people as agents of history and of the social change required to
build a humane world of dignity, freedom and respect.
Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus
supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to
this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of
Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and
philosopher Frantz Fanon as an exemplar of "living thought" against
forms of reason marked by colonialism and racism. Working from his
own translations of the original French texts, Gordon critically
engages everything in Fanon from dialectics, ethics,
existentialism, and humanism to philosophical anthropology,
phenomenology, and political theory as well as psychiatry and
psychoanalysis. Gordon takes into account scholars from across the
Global South to address controversies around Fanon's writings on
gender and sexuality as well as political violence and the social
underclass. In doing so, he confronts the replication of a colonial
and racist geography of reason, allowing theorists from the Global
South to emerge as interlocutors alongside northern ones in a move
that exemplifies what, Gordon argues, Fanon represented in his plea
to establish newer and healthier human relationships beyond
colonial paradigms.
Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus
supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to
this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of
Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and
philosopher Frantz Fanon as an exemplar of âliving thoughtâ
against forms of reason marked by colonialism and racism. Working
from his own translations of the original French texts, Gordon
critically engages everything in Fanon from dialectics, ethics,
existentialism, and humanism to philosophical anthropology,
phenomenology, and political theory as well as psychiatry and
psychoanalysis. Gordon takes into account scholars from across the
Global South to address controversies around Fanonâs writings on
gender and sexuality as well as political violence and the social
underclass. In doing so, he confronts the replication of a colonial
and racist geography of reason, allowing theorists from the Global
South to emerge as interlocutors alongside northern ones in a move
that exemplifies what, Gordon argues, Fanon represented in his plea
to establish newer and healthier human relationships beyond
colonial paradigms.
Women of color remain arguably the most economically, politically,
and socially marginalized group in the United States and the Third
World. In Spoils of War, a diverse group of distinguished
contributors suggest that acts of aggression resulting from the
racism and sexism inherent in social institutions can be viewed as
a sort of 'war, ' experienced daily by women of color.
Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge collects key
philosophical writings of Lewis R. Gordon, a globally renowned
scholar whose writings cover liberation struggles across the globe
and make field-defining contributions to the philosophy of
existence, philosophy of race, Africana philosophy, philosophy of
human sciences, aesthetics, and decolonization. Gordonâs
expansive output ranges across phenomenology, anti-Blackness,
activist thinkers, sexuality, Fanon, Jimi Hendrix, Black Jewish
struggles, critical pedagogy, psychoanalysis, and Ubuntu
philosophy. Edited by Rozena Maart and Sayan Dey, two decolonial
thinkers from South Africa and India, this reader shifts attention
away from colonial centres of power, encouraging global dialogue
across students, scholars, and activists. Featuring a foreword by
the celebrated novelist and postcolonial thinker, Ngugi wa
Thiong'o, this reader includes a mixture of research articles,
short critical essays, reflections, interviews, poems, and
photographs in the creative pursuit of liberation.
'Important . . . powerful . . . . an explanation of why Black
protest is such a dangerous prospect to the white power structure'
Kehinde Andrews, Guardian Where is the path to racial justice? In
this ground-breaking book, philosopher Lewis R. Gordon ranges over
history, art and pop culture - from ancient African languages to
the film Get Out - to show why the answer lies not just in freeing
Black bodies from the fraud of white supremacy, but in freeing all
of our minds. Building on the influential work of Frantz Fanon and
W. E. B. Du Bois, Fear of Black Consciousness is a vital
contribution to our conversations on racial politics, identity and
culture. 'Expansive . . . reminds us that the ultimate aim of Black
freedom quests is, indeed, universal liberation' Angela Y. Davis
A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of
the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history.
His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political
chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such as
Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Black Boy (1945), and Native Son
(1941), Wright faced staunch criticism and even censorship
throughout his career for the graphic sexuality, intense violence,
and communist themes in his work. Yet, many political theorists
have ignored his radical ideas. In The Politics of Richard Wright,
an interdisciplinary group of scholars embraces the controversies
surrounding Wright as a public intellectual and author. Several
contributors explore how the writer mixed fact and fiction to
capture the empirical and emotional reality of living as a black
person in a racist world. Others examine the role of gender in
Wright's canonical and lesser-known writing and the implications of
black male vulnerability. They also discuss the topics of black
subjectivity, internationalism and diaspora, and the legacy of and
responses to slavery in America. Wright's contributions to American
political thought remain vital and relevant today. The Politics of
Richard Wright is an indispensable resource for students of
American literature, culture, and politics who strive to interpret
this influential writer's life and legacy.
Phenomenology, the philosophical method that seeks to uncover the
taken-for-granted presuppositions, habits, and norms that structure
everyday experience, is increasingly framed by ethical and
political concerns. Critical phenomenology foregrounds experiences
of marginalization, oppression, and power in order to identify and
transform common experiences of injustice that render "the
familiar" a site of oppression for many. In 50 Concepts for a
Critical Phenomenology, leading scholars present fresh readings of
classic phenomenological topics and introduce newer concepts
developed by feminist theorists, critical race theorists,
disability theorists, and queer and trans theorists that capture
aspects of lived experience that have traditionally been neglected.
By centering historically marginalized perspectives, the chapters
in this book breathe new life into the phenomenological tradition
and reveal its ethical, social, and political promise. The volume
will be an invaluable resource for teaching and research in
continental philosophy; feminist, gender, and sexuality studies;
critical race theory; disability studies; cultural studies; and
critical theory more generally.
Phenomenology, the philosophical method that seeks to uncover the
taken-for-granted presuppositions, habits, and norms that structure
everyday experience, is increasingly framed by ethical and
political concerns. Critical phenomenology foregrounds experiences
of marginalization, oppression, and power in order to identify and
transform common experiences of injustice that render "the
familiar" a site of oppression for many. In 50 Concepts for a
Critical Phenomenology, leading scholars present fresh readings of
classic phenomenological topics and introduce newer concepts
developed by feminist theorists, critical race theorists,
disability theorists, and queer and trans theorists that capture
aspects of lived experience that have traditionally been neglected.
By centering historically marginalized perspectives, the chapters
in this book breathe new life into the phenomenological tradition
and reveal its ethical, social, and political promise. The volume
will be an invaluable resource for teaching and research in
continental philosophy; feminist, gender, and sexuality studies;
critical race theory; disability studies; cultural studies; and
critical theory more generally.
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Historicizing Anti-Semitism (Proceedings of the International Conference on The Post-September 11 New Ethnic/Racial Configurations in Europe and the United States - The Case of Anti-Semitism, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, June 29-30, 2007) (Paperback, Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, VII, 2, Spring 2009 (Softcover Edition) ed.)
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi; Edited by (ghost editors) Lewis R Gordon, Ramon Grosfoguel
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Philosophy in Multiple Voices invites transactional dialogue,
critical imagination, and the desire to travel to enter those
discursive spaces where the love of wisdom gets inflected through
both lived embodiment and situational history. The text raises
significant meta-philosophical questions around the issue of who
constitutes the 'philosophical we' through a delineation and
valorization of multiple philosophical voices-African-American,
Afro-Caribbean, Asian-American, Feminist, Latin-American, Lesbian,
Native-American and Queer-that set forth complex concerns around
canon formation, the relationship between philosophical discursive
configurations and issues of gendered, sexed, racial and ethnic
identities, the dynamic of shifting philosophical historical
trajectories, differential philosophical visions, sensibilities,
and philosophical praxes that are still largely underrepresented
within the institutional confines of 'mainstream' philosophy. The
text encourages philosophical heterogeneity as a value that ought
to be nurtured.
Literary scholars and historians have long considered W. E. B. Du
Bois (1868--1963) an extremely influential writer and a powerful
cultural critic. The author of more than one hundred books,
hundreds of published articles, and founding editor of the NAACP
journal The Crisis, Du Bois has been widely studied for his
profound insights on the politics of race and class in America. An
activist as well as a scholar, Du Bois proclaimed, "I stand in
utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing
has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black
folk to love and enjoy." In A Political Companion to W. E. B. Du
Bois, Nick Bromell assembles essays from both new and established
scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore Du Bois's
contributions to American political thought. The contributors
establish a conceptual context within which to read the author,
revealing how richly and variously he engaged with the aesthetic
and theological modalities of political thinking and action. This
volume further reveals how Du Bois's work challenges and revises
contemporary political theory, providing commentary on the author's
strengths and limitations as a theorist for the twenty-first
century. In doing so, it helps readers gain an understanding of how
Du Bois's work and life continue to stimulate lively and
constructive debate about the theory and practice of democracy in
America.
This is an innovative work in Africana philosophical thought that
links the phenomenon of nihilism in black America, in particular
black American youth, to modern traditions of Western philosophy.
Black Nihilism and Antiblack Racism engages defining themes of
black existential life by offering a framework for considering the
relationships between antiblack racism, pessimism, nihilism,
weakness, strength, maturity, freedom, and hope in the 21st
century. This book readdresses themes popularly raised by Cornel
West in 1994 regarding the nature, causes, evaluations, diagnoses,
and prognoses of what has been called, "nihilism in black America."
Black Nihilism and Antiblack Racism seeks to recontextualize
discussions of nihilism and its possibilities for American cultural
life. As a result, this book bears important questions, offers
unique analyses, and suggests radical responses that are relevant
for studies of black life and theories of justice in twenty-first
century America.
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