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145Comment on J. J. E. Gracia’s Hispanic/latino IdentityPhilosophy and Social Criticism 27 (2): 3-10. 2001.
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92After Identity: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Gender by Georgia WarnkeConstellations 17 (4): 589-594. 2010.
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58Comments on Bernd Magnus's “A Bridge Too Far: Asceticism and Eternal Recurrence”Southern Journal of Philosophy 37 (Supplement): 113-118. 1999.
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58What is Race? Four Philosophical Views, by Joshua Glasgow, Sally Haslanger, Chike Jeffers, and Quayshawn SpencerMind 131 (521): 309-317. 2022.
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48Zarathustra’s Dionysian ModernismStanford University Press. 2001.In arguing that Nietzsche's _Thus Spoke Zarathustra_ is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism—that is, of the possibility of radical cultural change through the creation of new values—the author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy. Nietzsche takes up the problem of modernism by inventing Zarathustra, a self-styled cultural innovator who aspires to subvert the culture of modernity by creating new values. By showing how Zarathustra can become a creator o…Read more
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46Zarathustra Contra Zarathustra (review)International Studies in Philosophy 35 (4): 192-193. 2003.
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45Comments on Bernd Magnus's “A Bridge Too Far: Asceticism and Eternal Recurrence”Southern Journal of Philosophy 37 (S1): 113-118. 1999.
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45Beauty as PropagandaPhilosophical Topics 49 (1): 13-33. 2021.This paper considers W.E.B. Du Bois’s short story, “Jesus Christ in Texas,” in the perspective of his analysis of the concept of beauty in Darkwater (1920); his exposition of the idea that “all art is propaganda” in “Criteria of Negro Art” (1926); and his moral psychology of white supremacy. On my account, Du Bois holds that beautiful art can help to undermine white supremacy by using representations of moral goodness to expand the white supremacist’s ethical horizons. To defend this thesis, he …Read more
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441. The Du Bois–Washington Debate and the Idea of DignityIn Brandon M. Terry & Tommie Shelby (eds.), To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr, Harvard University Press. pp. 19-34. 2018.
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35Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in AmericaPhilosophical Review 104 (4): 601. 1995.This volume brings together a wide-ranging collection of seventeen essays, most of which were published elsewhere during the last ten or so years and some of which appear here in revised versions. Its subtitle is somewhat misleading, because Keeping Faith is neither a sustained philosophical discussion of American racial identities nor an extended argument to the effect that some noteworthy assumptions about race have helped to shape the history of American philosophical thought. Still, many of …Read more
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34Revisiting the Ferguson Report: Antiblack Concepts and the Practice of PolicingCritical Inquiry 47 (S2). 2021.
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33Democracy’s History of Inegalitarianism: Symposium on Michael Hanchard, The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy, Princeton University Press, 2018, 272 pgs (review)Political Theory 009059172090186. forthcoming.
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30Egos, Monsters, and Bodies: Response to Shapiro and ConwayInternational Studies in Philosophy 36 (3): 117-125. 2004.
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29Review Essay: Jason Stanley's Theory of Propaganda and IdeologyConstellations 24 (2): 267-273. 2017.
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26Zarathustra's descent: Incipit tragoedia, incipit parodiaJournal of Nietzsche Studies 9 50-76. 1995.
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22Keeping Faith (review)Philosophical Review 104 (4): 601-603. 1995.This volume brings together a wide-ranging collection of seventeen essays, most of which were published elsewhere during the last ten or so years and some of which appear here in revised versions. Its subtitle is somewhat misleading, because Keeping Faith is neither a sustained philosophical discussion of American racial identities nor an extended argument to the effect that some noteworthy assumptions about race have helped to shape the history of American philosophical thought. Still, many of …Read more
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22Review of will Dudley, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Philosophy: Thinking Freedom (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (2). 2003.
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20Special section: Lorenzo Simpson' s The Unfinished Project: Sensibilities in conflictPhilosophy and Social Criticism 33 (3): 275-287. 2007.In the remarks that follow I concentrate on Lorenzo Simpson's two books, Technology, Time and the Conversations of Modernity and The Unfinished Project: Toward a Postmetaphysical Humanism. Common to both works — what unites them, I believe — is a philosophical orientation that has been deeply influenced by Gadamerian hermeneutics. I begin with a discussion of UP.
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18Special section: Lorenzo Simpson's The Unfinished Project: `Y'all don't hear me now': On Lorenzo Simpson's The Unfinished ProjectPhilosophy and Social Criticism 33 (3): 289-299. 2007.
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12Aesthetics and receptivity : Kant, Nietzsche, Cavell, and astaireIn Andrew Norris (ed.), The Claim to Community: Essays on Stanley Cavell and Political Philosophy, Stanford University Press. pp. 236-262. 2006.
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12Look, a Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture and PoliticsRoutledge. 2005.First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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11Comments on Bernd Magnus's “A Bridge Too Far: Asceticism and Eternal Recurrence”Southern Journal of Philosophy 37 (S1): 113-118. 1999.