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13Rights, Recognition, Nationalism, and Fichte’s Ambivalent PoliticsIn Daniel Breazeale & Tom Rockmore (eds.), Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation Reconsidered, Suny Press. pp. 201-222. 2016.
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19En busca de la subjetividad radical.Releyendo a Marcuse después de HonnethEscritos 31 (66): 35-54. 2023.Abordaré la crítica de Axel Honneth a la primera Escuela de Frankfurt y su aparente omisión de Herbert Marcuse. Defenderé a Marcuse contra algunas de las críticas hechas por Honneth a la teoría crítica temprana de la Escuela de Frankfurt. Luego argumentaré que Marcuse siempre estuvo en busca de una subjetividad radical, incluso cuando advirtió contra los mecanismos unidimensionales en curso de producción de sujetos. Finalmente, mostraré que Honneth también construye su proyecto en torno a la bús…Read more
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The vocation of postmodern man : why Fichte now? again?In Daniel Breazeale & Tom Rockmore (eds.), Fichte's Vocation of Man: New Interpretive and Critical Essays, State University of New York Press. pp. 285-299. 2013.
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Between Socrates and Grandma: On Being a Black Southern PhilosopherIn Shannon Sullivan (ed.), Thinking the US South: contemporary philosophy from Southern perspectives, Northwestern University Press. 2021.
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The New Sensibility, Intersectionality, and Democratic Attunement: The Future of Critical Theory and HumanityIn The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 697-714. 2017.
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50Viewing the Black Panther Movie through the Lenses of Liberation Philosophy and Liberation TheologyThe Acorn 18 (1): 81-85. 2018.Here I want to examine two different ways of viewing/reading Black Panther. I will call the first reading the Standard Morality Reading (SMR). I will call the second reading the Liberation Morality Reading (LMR). I argue that these two readings, and the forms of morality that influence them, are in tension with each other throughout the movie. They also produce a tension or moral struggle in King T’Challa and the citizens of Wakanda in general.
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3The Philosophy of Praxis and Utopian Possibilities: Marcuse, Marx, and Lukács on Revolution (review)Radical Philosophy Review 18 (2): 313-321. 2015.
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44In Search of Radical SubjectivityRadical Philosophy Review 16 (1): 267-288. 2013.I will address Axel Honneth’s critique of the early Frankfurt School and his apparent omission of Marcuse. I will defend Marcuse against some of the criticisms of early Frankfurt School critical theory made by Honneth. I will then argue that Marcuse was always in search of radical subjectivity, even as he warned against the ongoing one-dimensional mechanisms of subject production. Finally, I will show that Honneth also builds his project around the search for radical subjectivity but approaches …Read more
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4Diversity, Color-Blindness, and Other Hegemonic DiscoursesSocial Philosophy Today 24 91-105. 2008.In this paper I will examine the ways in which concepts and ideas that are used for emancipatory purposes eventually backfire and are used to perpetuate systems of domination. Part of my argument will be based on Herbert Marcuse’s essay “Repressive Tolerance.” In this essay, Marcuse examines the way in which the concept of tolerance, which has its origin in the struggle for liberation, is used by members of dominant social groups to advocate for tolerance of their oppressive views. Following Mar…Read more
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In the late twentieth century, philosophy seems to be in the midst of a crisis from which it may never recover. Many philosophers have announced the end of philosophy. For example: Richard Rorty claims that philosophy is nothing more than "edifying discourse." At the center of the crisis in philosophy is the crisis of reason. Not only has reason's potential for discovering truth been challenged, reason has also been charged with establishing and maintaining oppressive social structures. However,…Read more
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93Can a philosophy of race afford to abandon the Kantian categorical imperative?Journal of Social Philosophy 33 (1). 2002.
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9Whiteness visible: Enlightenment racism and the structure of racialized consciousnessIn George Yancy (ed.), What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question, Routledge. 2004.
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12Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond (edited book)Lexington Books. 2010.Alain Locke, the central promoter of the Harlem Renaissance, is placed in conversation with leading philosophers and cultural figures in the modern world, from Aristotle to Obama. For teachers and students of contemporary debates in pragmatism, diversity, and value theory, these conversations' define new-and controversial-terrain
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47Critical Theory and Democratic Vision: Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation PhilosophiesLexington Books. 2008.Liberation philosophy and democratic struggles -- The quest for the revolutionary subject : the early Marcuse -- The retrieval of Eros and the quest for a new sensibility -- Marcuse and the problem of intersubjectivity : beyond drive theory -- One-dimensional society and the demise of dialectical thinking -- Spectres of liberation : beyond one-dimensional man -- Liberal democracy and its limits : the challenge of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation -- Marcuse and discourse ethics -- Libe…Read more
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12And economics, with a concentration in globalization, at the University of Pennsylvania, and she recently studied English at King's College in London. She is interested in human rights and genocide studies. She is the associate editor of “Critical Refusals,” the 2013 double special issue of the Radical PhiRadical Philosophy Review 16 (2): 679-683. 2013.
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37Diversity, Color-Blindness, and Other Hegemonic DiscoursesSocial Philosophy Today 24 91-105. 2008.In this paper I will examine the ways in which concepts and ideas that are used for emancipatory purposes eventually backfire and are used to perpetuate systems of domination. Part of my argument will be based on Herbert Marcuse’s essay “Repressive Tolerance.” In this essay, Marcuse examines the way in which the concept of tolerance, which has its origin in the struggle for liberation, is used by members of dominant social groups to advocate for tolerance of their oppressive views. Following Mar…Read more
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