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4Black existentialismIn Alan D. Schrift (ed.), The History of Continental Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 4--199. 2010.
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23What Is Afro-Caribbean Philosophy?In George Yancy (ed.), Philosophy in Multiple Voices, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 145--175. 2007.
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17Through the Twilight Zone of NonbeingIn Noël Carroll & Lester H. Hunt (eds.), Philosophy in the Twilight Zone, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Sources.
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22When Reason Is in a Bad Mood: A Fanonian Philosophical PortraitIn Hagi Kenaan & Ilit Ferber (eds.), Philosophy's moods: the affective grounds of thinking, Springer. pp. 185--198. 2011.
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70Fanon on Decolonizing KnowledgeIn Elizabeth Anne Hoppe & Tracey Nicholls (eds.), Fanon and the Decolonization of Philosophy, Lexington (rowman & Littlefield). pp. 3--18. 2010.
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11Fanon Y la filosofía de la liberación1In Jorge Martínez Contreras, Aura Ponce de León & Luis Villoro (eds.), El saber filosófico, Asociación Filosófica De México. pp. 2--222. 2007.
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4Grown folks' business: The problem of maturity in hip hopIn D. Darby & T. Shelby (eds.), Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason, Open Court. pp. 2--105. 2005.
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11Obligations Across Generations: A Consideration in the Understanding of Community FormationIn Philip Alperson (ed.), Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 116--127. 2002.
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27L'existence noire dans la philosophie de la cultureDiogène 235 (3/4): 130-144. 2012.This article examines an Africana philosophy of culture of black existence through, after offering a critique of a theodicy of textuality and social reality, exploration of the construction of “problem people,” of people whose existence, marked by blackness, has been treated as a challenge to reason and the search for knowledge in the modern world. As Africana philosophy raises concerns of philosophical anthropology, philosophy of freedom, and a metacritique of reason, it offers, as well, a case…Read more
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11Making Science Reasonable: Peter Caws on Science Both Human and 'Natural'Janus Head: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts 5 (1): 14-38. 2002.
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96Through the Zone of Nonbeing A Reading of Black Skin, White Masks in Celebration of Fanon's Eightieth BirthdayCLR James Journal 11 (1): 1-43. 2005.
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28Sartre et l'existentialisme noirCités 22 (2): 89. 2005.De nombreux philosophes noirs donneraient cher pour avoir pris un café avec Jean-Paul Sartre. Si nous en avions la possibilité, beaucoup d’entre nous commenceraient par le remercier de son courage. Il a lutté non seulement contre les forces anti-humaines de la société française et de la société américaine, mais aussi contre ces forces en lui qui proposaient toujours la séduction d’une..
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African-american existential philosophyIn Tommy Lee Lott & John P. Pittman (eds.), A Companion to African-American Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2003.
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8Critical reflections on three popular tropes in the study of whitenessIn George Yancy (ed.), What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question, Routledge. 2004.
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82Not always enslaved, yet not quite free: Philosophical challenges from the underside of the new worldPhilosophia 36 (2): 151-166. 2008.This article is the keynote address of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados, philosophy symposium in celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the British outlawing the Atlantic Slave Trade. The paper explores questions of enslavement and freedom through challenges of philosophical anthropology, philosophy of social change, and metacritical reflections posed by African Diasporic or Africana philosophy. Such challenges include the relevance and legitimacy of philosophical reflec…Read more
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88Existentia Africana: understanding Africana existential thoughtRoutledge. 2000.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 clearly explains Africana existential t…Read more
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21Sartre et l'existentialisme noirCités 2 (22): 89-97. 2005.De nombreux philosophes noirs donneraient cher pour avoir pris un café avec Jean-Paul Sartre. Si nous en avions la possibilité, beaucoup d’entre nous commenceraient par le remercier de son courage. Il a lutté non seulement contre les forces anti-humaines de la société française et de la société américaine, mais aussi contre ces forces en lui qui proposaient toujours la séduction d’une...
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10Africana insightThe Philosophers' Magazine 47 47-51. 2009.A mistaken view of Africana philosophy is that it is parasitic on Western philosophy, and that it is so in a way that limits its legitimacy as an area of thought. This misconception is often alluded to, although not intended, in the phrase “philosophy and the black experience” or “philosophy and the Africana experience”.
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65Africana insightThe Philosophers' Magazine 47 (47): 47-51. 2009.A mistaken view of Africana philosophy is that it is parasitic on Western philosophy, and that it is so in a way that limits its legitimacy as an area of thought. This misconception is often alluded to, although not intended, in the phrase “philosophy and the black experience” or “philosophy and the Africana experience”.
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121As the first book to analyze the work of Fanon as an existential-phenomenological of human sciences and liberation philosopher, Gordon deploys Fanon's work to illuminate how the "bad faith" of European science and civilization have philosophically stymied the project of liberation. Fanon's body of work serves as a critique of European science and society, and shows the ways in which the project of "truth" is compromised by Eurocentric artificially narrowed scope of humanity--a circumstance to wh…Read more
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15Journeys in Caribbean Thought: The Paget Henry Reader (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield International. 2016.For the past 30 years, Paget Henry has been one of the most articulate and creative voices in Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of Caribbean political economy, C.L.R. James studies, critical theory, phenomenology, and Africana philosophy. This volume includes some of his most important essays from across his remarkable career, providing an introduction to a broad range of pressing contemporary themes and to the unique mind of one of the leading Caribbean intellectu…Read more
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University of ConnecticutDepartment of PhilosophyHead and Professor of Philosophy and Global Affairs
Areas of Specialization
Philosophical Traditions |
Value Theory |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
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Philosophical Traditions |
Value Theory |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |