Existentia Africana : understanding Africana existential thought / Lewis R. Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo), 1962-

Series:

Africana thought.

Africana thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American philosophy.

Existentialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First Published in 2000

Contents:

Cover; Existentia Africana; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface, with Acknowledgments; 1 Africana Philosophy of Existence; 2 A Problem of Biography in Africana Thought; 3 Frederick Douglass as an Existentialist; 4 What Does It Mean to Be a Problem? W. E. B. Du Bois on the Study of Black Folk; 5 Mixed Race in Light of Whiteness and Shadows of Blackness Naomi Zack on Mixed Race; 6 Can Men Worship? An Existential Portrait in Black and White; 7 Recent Africana Religious Thought Existential Anxieties of Pan-Africanism and Postmodernism at the End of the Twentieth Century

8 Existential Borders of Anonymity and Superfluous Invisibility9 Words and Incantations Invocations and Evocations of a Wayward Traveler; Notes; Works Consulted; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-215) and index.

ISBN:

1-135-95887-4

1-280-31677-2

0-203-90075-8

9780203900758

OCLC:

437082821