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Freedom, justice, and decolonization / Lewis R. Gordon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo), 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Decolonization--Philosophy.
- Decolonization.
- Postcolonialism--Philosophy.
- Postcolonialism.
- Decolonization--Africa.
- Philosophy.
- Africa.
- Postcolonialism--Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 145 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Lewis R. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut at Storrs; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies; Honorary Professor in the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes University, South Africa; Chairperson of the American Philosophical Association Committee on Public Philosophy; and Chairperson of the Awards Committee and Global Collaborations for the Caribbean Philosophical Association, of which he was the organization's first president. His books published by Routledge include Fanon and the Crisis of European Man, Existence in Black, Existentia Africana, Disciplinary Decadence, and, with Jane Anna Gordon, Not Only the Master's Tools and Of Divine Warning.
- Contents:
- On philosophy, in Africana philosophy
- Re-imagining liberations
- Toward the decolonization of normative life
- Teleological suspensions for political life
- Thoughts on Afropessimism
- Emancipatory challenges of blackness
- Irreplaceability
- Disaster, ruin, and permanent catastrophe
- Epilogue: conversation with decolonial philosopher Madina Tlotsanova on shifting the geography of reason.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Gordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo), 1962- Freedom, justice, and decolonization.
- ISBN:
- 9781000244656
- 1000244652
- 9781003112594
- 1003112595
- 9781000244694
- 1000244695
- 9781000244731
- 1000244733
- Publisher Number:
- 40030337201
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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