Not Only The Master's Tools - African-American Studies In Theory And Practice

Informationen zum Autor Lewis R. Gordon, Jane Anna Gordon Klappentext Not Only the Master's Tools brings together new essays on African American studies. It is ideal for students and scholars of African studies, philosophy, literary theory, educational theory, social and political thought, and postcolonial studies. Zusammenfassung Brings together new essays on African American studies. Ideal for students of African studies, philosophy, social and political thought, and postcolonial studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon Acknowledgments PART I: The Geopoliticality of African-American Epistemic Struggles Chapter 1: African-American Philosophy, Race, and teh Geography of Reason Lewis R. Gordon Chapter 2: Toward a Critique of Continental Reason: Africana Studies and the Decolonization of Imperial Cartographies in the Americas Nelson Maldonado-Torres Chapter 3: The Idea of Post-European Science: An Essay on Phenomenology and Africana Studies Kenneth Danziger Knies Chapter 4: On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Re-Imprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being, of Desetre: Black Studies Toward the Human Project Sylvia Wynter PART II: Transfigurations of African-American Being and Doing Chapter 5: Pedagogy and the Philosophical Anthropology of African-American Slave Culture Stephen Nathan Haymes Chapter 6: Double Consciousness and the Problem of Political Legitimacy Jane Anna Gordon Chapter 7: On the Possibilities of Posthumanism, or How to Think Queerly in an Antiblack World David Ross Fryer Chapter 8: Philosophy in the African Tradition of Resistance: Issues of Human Freedom and Human Flourishing Maulana Karenga References Index About the Editors and Contributors

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• Authors: Jane Anna Gordon, Lewis R. Gordon, Lewis R. (EDT)/ Gordon Gordon, Gordon Jane Anna
• Assisted by: Jane Anna Gordon (Editor), Lewis R. Gordon (Editor)
• Publisher: Paradigm Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2005
• EAN: 9781594511462
• ISBN: 978-1-59451-146-2
• No. of pages: 321
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Cultural Politics & the Promis
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Africa, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, The Americas, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies