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Sylvia Wynter and the Concept of the Homocene

...etic apprehension of the anthropos is grounded in Man’s emic conceptualization of himself, homo. What Wynter has argued, following Lewis R. Gordon, is that this grammar recapitulates the logic of...

Reports from Abroad: Dr. Mouhamadou El Hady Ba

...US to work on the mentioned book. I spent the 2021–2022 academic year at both the University of Connecticut and Columbia University, where I worked respectively with Lewis Gordon and...

A Reflection on Eva Kittay on Human Dignity

Eva Feder Kittay’s Learning from My Daughter presents an argument worth considering as notions of “anti-human” and “post-human” have gained currency. The daughter to whom she refers is cognitively disabled....

APA Blog: Ricardo Friaz

...Lewis Gordon’s Disciplinary Decadence. Of course, I think most of the answers aren’t meaningful if the stunning lack of stable jobs in philosophy is not addressed. It does not make...

Where the Hell have Us White Philosophers Been? The Need for Peace, Love, and Racial Justice in Philosophy

...grow in my own relationship to philosophy (Lewis Gordon was the first to point out this possibility to me.)  More specifically, it is the work of Ruth King on mindfulness...

(Everyday) Violence and Speechless Horror

...in this series on her contribution to that conference. And Lewis Gordon recently published an elegy on the blog in light of that conference. This post is another in what...

So You Want to Teach Some Africana Philosophy?

...Henry, Africana Phenomenology: Its Philosophical Implications, CLR James Journal 11 (2005), 79-112. Teacher readings: Henry, Lewis Gordon, Africana Phenomenology and the Crisis of European Man Gordon, Phenomenology and Race Paris, “One...

An Elegy for Bat-Ami Bar On

...Black Issues in Philosophy. For Ami Lewis R. Gordon Daughter of the nation A meeting of worlds Land and sea So she was With strength Of a transformed surname Solid...

A Posthumous Evaluation of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois for Professor at——

...by Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon; The African American Studies Reader, edited by Nathaniel Norment, Jr. (Durham, NC: Carolina Academics Press, 2001); Africana Studies: A Disciplinary Quest for...

Interview with Sean D. Kelly: A Genealogy of Redemption in the Western Tradition (Part 2)

...taken from Lewis and Short, A Latin Dictionary.) The idea is that the human soul is corrupted, is detestable. Evil [malum] just is wanting to embrace those corrupt and detestable...