[PDF] A Companion To African American Philosophy eBook

Author : Tommy L. Lott
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0470751630

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This wide-ranging, multidisciplinary collection of newly commissioned articles brings together distinguished voices in the field of Africana philosophy and African-American social and political thought. Provides a comprehensive critical survey of African-American philosophical thought. Collects wide-ranging, multidisciplinary, newly commissioned articles in one authoritative volume. Serves as a benchmark work of reference for courses in philosophy, social and political thought, cultural studies, and African-American studies.

Author : Stephen Ferguson II
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,91 MB
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1350057932

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This book presents the first introduction to African American academic philosophers, exploring their concepts and ideas and revealing the critical part they have played in the formation of philosophy in the USA. The book begins with the early years of educational attainment by African American philosophers in the 1860s. To demonstrate the impact of their philosophical work on general problems in the discipline, chapters are broken down into four major areas of study: Axiology, Social Science, Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy of Science. Providing personal narratives on individual philosophers and examining the work of figures such as H. T. Johnson, William D. Johnson, Joyce Mitchell Cooke, Adrian Piper, William R. Jones, Roy D. Morrison, Eugene C. Holmes, and William A. Banner, the book challenges the myth that philosophy is exclusively a white academic discipline. Packed with examples of struggles and triumphs, this engaging introduction is a much-needed approach to studying philosophy today.

Author : Jane Anna Gordon
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 2006-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780631235163

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A Companion to African-American Studies is an exciting and comprehensive re-appraisal of the history and future of African American studies. Contains original essays by expert contributors in the field of African-American Studies Creates a groundbreaking re-appraisal of the history and future of the field Includes a series of reflections from those who established African American Studies as a bona fide academic discipline Captures the dynamic interaction of African American Studies with other fields of inquiry.

Author : Kwasi Wiredu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0470997370

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This volume of newly commissioned essays provides comprehensive coverage of African philosophy, ranging across disciplines and throughout the ages. Offers a distinctive historical treatment of African philosophy. Covers all the main branches of philosophy as addressed in the African tradition. Includes accounts of pre-colonial African philosophy and contemporary political thought.

Author : George Yancy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134954689

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African-American Philosophers brings into conversation seventeen of the foremost thinkers of color to discuss issues such as Black existentialism, racism, Black women philosophers within the academy, affirmative action and the conceptual parameters of African-American philosophy.

Author : Rudolph Alexander Kofi Cain
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789042008335

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Drawing on the philosopher's writings as well as the recollections of several people who knew him, Cain (education, State U. of New York) examines Locke's philosophy of cultural pluralism and the impact of his grounding in philosophy as he became immersed in the adult education movement of the 1920s to the 1940s. The study looks at how Locke expected others to use his aesthetic, literary, and anthropological theories as instruments for social and political transformation, and discusses the links and contrasts between Locke's thinking and the work of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois. Seven b&w photos follow the text. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Tommie Shelby
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 2005-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674019362

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The author argues that African Americans can reject a biological idea of race and agree with many criticisms of identity politics yet still view black political solidarity as a needed emancipatory tool. (African-American Studies)

Author : Stephen Ferguson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1137549971

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In this ground-breaking book, Stephen C. Ferguson addresses a seminal question that is too-often ignored: What should be the philosophical basis for African American studies? The volume explores philosophical issues and problems in their relationship to Black studies. Ferguson shows that philosophy is not a sterile intellectual pursuit, but a critical tool to gathering knowledge about the Black experience. Cultural idealism in various forms has become enormously influential as a framework for Black studies. Ferguson takes on the task of demonstrating how a Marxist philosophical perspective offers a productive and fruitful way of overcoming the limitations of idealism. Focusing on the hugely popular Afrocentric school of thought, this book’s engaging discussion shows that the foundational arguments of cultural idealism are based on a series of analytical and historical misapprehensions. In turn, Ferguson argues for the centrality of the Black working class—both men and women—to Black Studies.

Author : Tommy Lee Lott
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 16,46 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN :

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This anthology brings together a selection of historical and contemporary writings on topics in African-American Philosophy. Questions regarding a wide range of issues--including slavery and freedom, social progress, self-respect, alienation, sexuality, cultural identity, nationalism, feminism, Marxism and violence--are critically examined from different perspectives by well-known philosophers and by non-philosophers from many disciplines. It emphasizes the historical significance of the philosophical arguments within very specific social and political contexts. Features substantial extracts, and in some cases complete works by important 19th- and 20th-century social and political thinkers--organized under sections on Antebellem Critical Thought, Emigrationist and Diaspora Thought, Assimilation and Social Uplift, Contemporary Black Feminist Thought, Civil Rights and Civil Disobedience, Marxism and Social Progress, Rebellion and Radical Thought, Social Activism Reconsidered, Black Women Writers on Rape, and Alienation and Self-Respect. For anyone interested in the African-American experience and American history.