Lewis Gordon

Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Lewis R. Gordon offers a probing meditation on freedom, justice, and decolonization, asking what there is to be understood and done when 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?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000244731
• Artikelnr.: 60681473

Autorenporträt

Lewis R. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut at Storrs; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies; Honorary Professor in the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes University, South Africa; Chairperson of the American Philosophical Association Committee on Public Philosophy; and Chairperson of the Awards Committee and Global Collaborations for the Caribbean Philosophical Association, of which he was the organization's first president. His books published by Routledge include Fanon and the Crisis of European Man, Existence in Black, Existentia Africana, Disciplinary Decadence, and, with Jane Anna Gordon, Not Only the Master's Tools and Of Divine Warning.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface, with Acknowledgments
1. On Philosophy, in Africana Philosophy
2. Re-Imagining Liberations
3. Toward the Decolonization of Normative Life
4. Teleological Suspensions for Political Life
5. Thoughts on Afropessimism
6. Emancipatory Challenges of Blackness
7. Irreplaceability
8. Disaster, Ruin, and Permanent Catastrophe
Epilogue: Conversation with Decolonial Philosopher Madina Tlostanova on
Shifting the Geography of Reason