Black Existentialism

Offering a critical examination of Lewis Gordon's work by international scholars engaging in radical epistemological transformation for social change, this volume explores the importance of radical theory and thinkers to push for projects of change in the area of Black Existentialism.

List of contents

Introduction, danielle davis / 1. Towards a Radical Humanities, Nigel C. Gibson / 2. Against Bad Faith, for Living Thought: Towards a Pedagogy of Absences, Conflict and Emergences, Julia Suarez-Krabbe / 3. Consideration on the Theoretical Dimension of Lewis Ricardo Gordon's Thought for Brazilian Intellectual Production, Rosemere Ferreira / 4. Sociotelic Reflections on Lewis Gordon's Anticolonial Imagination, Walter R. Isaac / 5. The Revolutionary Language of Black Existentialism, Devon R. Johnson / 6. The Transformative Power of Lewis Gordon's Africana Philosophy in Mandela's House, Mabogo More / 7. Gordon and Feminism, Lisa M. Anderson / 8. I Can't Quite Put My Finger On It: Racism's Touch, Shirley Tate / 9. Lewis Gordon: Existential Incantations that Cross Borders and Move Us Forward, Catherine Walsh / 10. Plural Racial Ontologies, danielle davis / 11. A Phenomenological and Psychodynamic Reflection on Freedom and Oppression Following the Guiding Thread of Lewis Gordon's Existential Phenomenology of Oppression, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat / 12. Lewis Gordon's Existential Cartography, Molefi K. Asante / Dwelling Otherwise: A Conversation with Lewis Gordon and Sara Ahmed / Bibliography / Index

About the author

danielle davis has held tenured lectureships at the University of New South Wales and University of Technology, Queensland in Australia. She is currently an ongoing academic at the University of New England in Australia.

Summary

Offering a critical examination of Lewis Gordon's work by international scholars engaging in radical epistemological transformation for social change, this volume explores the importance of radical theory and thinkers to push for projects of change in the area of Black Existentialism.

Product details

• Assisted by: Danielle Davis (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781786614889
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-488-9
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 228 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; Global Critical Caribbean Thou; Global Critical Caribbean Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Ethnic Studies, History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Black & Asian Studies, Phenomenology and Existentialism