{"product_id":"black-existentialism-and-decolonizing-knowledge-9781350343764","title":"Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Existentialism\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand Decolonizing Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e collects key philosophical writings of Lewis R. Gordon, a globally renowned scholar whose writings cover liberation struggles across the globe and make field-defining contributions to the philosophy of existence, philosophy of race, Africana philosophy, philosophy of human sciences, aesthetics, and decolonization.  Gordon's expansive output ranges across phenomenology, anti-Blackness, activist thinkers, sexuality, Fanon, Jimi Hendrix, Black Jewish struggles, critical pedagogy, psychoanalysis, and Ubuntu philosophy. Edited by Rozena Maart and Sayan Dey, two decolonial thinkers from South Africa and India, this reader shifts attention away from colonial centres of power, encouraging global dialogue across  students, scholars, and activists. Featuring a foreword by the celebrated novelist and postcolonial thinker, Ngugi wa Thiong''o, this reader includes a mixture of research articles, short critical essays, reflections, interv\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfound and authoritative essays by one of the leading contemporary Black philosophers of existence. As a towering figure in Black Existentialism Lewis Gordon weaves through a variety of contemporary issues such as antiblack racism, decolonization, bad faith, jazz, and the human sciences, from an Africana existential philosophical perspective. A must-read collection of essays. * Mabogo P. More, Research Associate, University of Limpopo, South Africa *\u003cbr\u003eLewis R. Gordon’s written words—along with his music, love, compassion, and interconnected humanity— teaches us to end “cruelty” and dehumanizing of the Damned of the Earth by “open[ing] our hearts to the freedom and possibility of life” and thereby making the world more livable for all humans and more-than-humans. * Jaspal Kaur Singh, Professor of English Literature, Northern Michigan University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eA dive into these selected writings by Lewis R. Gordon is a dive into an alternative conceptual scheme.  That scheme is informed by existentialism and an epistemology that faces reality – especially the reality of  those that Gordon calls the Damned. This is not an epistemology paraded as pure knowledge void of human  agency. It hears victims and the rising tide of new voices. It shifts, in effect, the geography of reason, and  thereby, what ‘reason’ itself means. The reader of \u003ci\u003eBlack Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge \u003c\/i\u003eis in  for a swim within new knowledge for a new world. * Leonard Harris, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThis selection has succeeded in the challenge of perfectly representing the work of Lewis Gordon, one of the greatest pioneers of African philosophy. Because it has captured the very nature of his philosophy: to be a continuous rhythmic movement rather than a collection of texts. * Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Director of the Institute of African Studies, Columbia University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface by Lewis R. Gordon \u003ci\u003e(University of Connecticut, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   Foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong’o \u003ci\u003e(University of California, Irvine, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   Introduction by Sayan Dey \u003ci\u003e(Royal University of Bhutan, Bhutan)\u003c\/i\u003e and Rozena Maart \u003ci\u003e(University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eBlack Existentialism and Africana Philosophy\u003c\/b\u003e    1. Africana Philosophy   2. Reasoning in Black: Africana Philosophy Under the Weight of Misguided Reason  3. Race in the Dialectics of Culture 4. Racism as a Form of Bad Faith  5. Critical Reflections on Three Popular Tropes in the Study of Whiteness  6. Phenomenology of Biko’s Black Consciousness  7. Theory in Black: Teleological Suspensions in Philosophy of Culture  8. Sex, Race and Matrices of Desire in an Anti-Black World  9. Racialization and Human Reality   10. Letter to a Grieving Student   11. Rockin’ It in Blue: A Black Existential Essay on Jimi Hendrix    \u003cb\u003eDecolonizing Knowledge\u003c\/b\u003e    12. Disciplinary Decadence and the Decolonization of Knowledge  13. Disciplining as a Human Science   14. The Problem of History in African American Theology  15. Rarely Kosher: Studying Jews of Color in North America  16. Jews Against Liberation: An Afro-Jewish Critique   17. Lewis Gordon’s Statement for Jacqueline Walker’s Dossier 2019  18. Shifting the Geography of Reason in an Age of Disciplinary Decadence  19. Decolonizing Philosophy  20. A Pedagogical Imperative of Pedagogical Imperatives  21. Justice Otherwise: Thoughts on Ubuntu  22. Teleological Suspensions for the Sake of Political Life  23. Labor, Migration and Race: Toward a Secular Model of Citizenship    \u003cb\u003eInterviews\u003c\/b\u003e    1. Are Reparations Possible? Lessons to the United States from South Africa  2. Thinking Art in a Decolonial Way   3. Gordon and Da Silva on Brazil and Africana Philosophy   4. \u003ci\u003eDougla\u003c\/i\u003e: Intersections between Dalitness and Afro-Blackness   5. Freedom, Oppression, and Black Consciousness in ‘Get Out’     Bibliography of Gordon’s writings from 1993–2023    Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019652006231,"sku":"9781350343764","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350343764.jpg?v=1750780916","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-existentialism-and-decolonizing-knowledge-9781350343764","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}