Black existentialism and decolonizing knowledge : writings of Lewis R. Gordon /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo), 1962- (Author, Editor)
Other Authors: Maart, Rozena (Editor), Dey, Sayan (Editor), Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury, [2023].
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Table of Contents:
  • Black Existentialism and Africana Philosophy : 1. Africana Philosophy
  • 2. Reasoning in Black: Africana Philosophy Under the Weight of Misguided Reason
  • 3. Race in the Dialectics of Culture
  • 4. Racism as a Form of Bad Faith
  • 5. Critical Reflections on Three Popular Tropes in the Study of Whiteness
  • 6. Phenomenology of Biko's Black Consciousness
  • 7. Theory in Black: Teleological Suspensions in Philosophy of Culture
  • 8. Sex, Race and Matrices of Desire in an Anti-Black World
  • 9. Racialization and Human Reality
  • 10. Letter to a Grieving Student
  • 11. Rockin' It in Blue: A Black Existential Essay on Jimi Hendrix
  • Decolonizing Knowledge : 12. Disciplinary Decadence and the Decolonization of Knowledge
  • 13. Disciplining as a Human Science
  • 14. The Problem of History in African American Theology
  • 15. Rarely Kosher: Studying Jews of Color in North America -16. Jews Against Liberation: An Afro-Jewish Critique
  • 17. Lewis Gordon's Statement for Jacqueline Walker's Dossier 2019
  • 18. Shifting the Geography of Reason in an Age of Disciplinary Decadence
  • 19. Decolonizing Philosophy
  • 20. A Pedagogical Imperative of Pedagogical Imperatives
  • 21. Justice Otherwise: Thoughts on Ubuntu
  • 22. Teleological Suspensions for the Sake of Political Life
  • 23. Labor, Migration and Race: Toward a Secular Model of Citizenship.