Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge : Writings of Lewis R. Gordon /: Writings of Lewis R. Gordon. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lewis R. Gordon, Rozena Maart, Sayan Dey.
• Authors: Gordon, Lewis R
• Editors: Maart, Rozena; Dey, Sayan
• Contents: Preface by Lewis R. Gordon (University of Connecticut, USA) Foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong'o (University of California, Irvine, USA) Introduction by Sayan Dey (Royal University of Bhutan, Bhutan) and Rozena Maart (University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa) 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 Culture4. 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 Interviews 1. Are Reparations Possible? Lessons to the United States from South Africa 2. Thinking Art in a Decolonial Way 3. Gordon and Da Silva on Brazil and Africana Philosophy 4. Dougla: Intersections between Dalitness and Afro-Blackness 5. Freedom, Oppression, and Black Consciousness in 'Get Out' Bibliography of Gordon's writings from 1993–2023 Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (360 pages)
• Subjects: Ethics & moral philosophy; Popular philosophy; Philosophy -- Movements -- Existentialism; Philosophy -- Political; Philosophy -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Social & political philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350343788; 1350343781
• Related ISBNs: 9781350343764
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