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31Fanon on cadavers, madness, and the damnedEuropean Journal of Philosophy 30 (4): 1577-1582. 2022.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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30What Does It Mean to Colonise and Decolonise Philosophy?Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 93 117-135. 2023.What does it mean for philosophy to be ‘colonised’ and what are some of the challenges involved in ‘decolonising’ it in philosophical and political terms? After distinguishing between philosophy and its practice as a professional enterprise, I explore six ways in which philosophy, at least as understood in its Euromodern form, could be interpreted as colonised: (1) Eurocentrism and its asserted racial and ethnic origins/misrepresentations of philosophy's history, (2) coloniality of its norms, (3…Read more
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27Freedom, Justice, and DecolonizationRoutledge. 2020.The eminent scholar Lewis R. Gordon offers a probing meditation on freedom, justice, and decolonization. What is there to be understood and done when it is evident that the search for justice, which dominates social and political philosophy of the North, is an insufficient approach for the achievements of dignity, freedom, liberation, and revolution? Gordon takes the reader on a journey as he interrogates a trail from colonized philosophy to re-imagining liberation and revolution to critical cha…Read more
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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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24Sartre 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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23What Is Afro-Caribbean Philosophy?In George Yancey (ed.), Philosophy in Multiple Voices, . pp. 145--175. 2007.
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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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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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19What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and ThoughtFordham University Press. 2015.Challenging the notion of theory as white and experience as black, Lewis Gordon here offers a philosophical portrait of the thought and life of the Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an example of "living thought" against the legacies of colonialism and racism, and thereby shows the continued relevance and importance of his ideas.
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18Jesus’s Uses of Language and Their Contemporary SignificancePhilosophia Christi 8 (2): 401-419. 2006.
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18To Undiscipline KnowledgePhilosophy and Global Affairs 1 (1): 5-21. 2021.The social sciences were founded at the height of the Euromodern era when the belief in infinite expansion coexisted with the willingness to enclose, categorize, and lock up a large part of humanity. The invention of the social sciences was closely linked to this enterprise of disciplinarization of spaces and of populations which accompanied the expansion of capitalism and colonial conquest. Stigmatized, dominated, and colonized groups were constituted as objects by social scientists who conside…Read more
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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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17Frantz Fanon: De l’anticolonialisme à la critique postcoloniale (review)Palimpsest 4 (2): 211-213. 2015.
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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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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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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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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 |