Philosophizing the Americas / Jacoby Adeshei Carter and Hernando Arturo Estévez, editors.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Carter, Jacoby Adeshei, 1979- editor.
• Estévez, Hernando Arturo, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Philosophy, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Philosophizing the Americas establishes the field of inter-American philosophy. Bringing together contributors who work in Africana Philosophy, Afro-Caribbean philosophy, Latin American philosophy, Afro-Latin philosophy, decolonial theory, and African American philosophy, the volume examines the full range of traditions that have, separately and in conversation with each other, worked through how philosophy in both establishes itself in the Americas and engages with the world from which it emerges.The book traces a range of questions, from the history of philosophy in the Americas to philosophical questions of race, feminism, racial eliminativism, creolization, epistemology, coloniality, aesthetics, and literature. The essays place an impressive range of philosophical traditions and figures into dialogue with one another: some familiar, such as José Martí, Sylvia Wynter, Martin R. Delany, José Vasconcelos, Alain Locke, as well as such less familiar thinkers as Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Hilda Hilst, and George Lamming. In each chapter, the contributors find fascinating and productive matrices of tension or convergence in works throughout the Americas. The result is an original and important contribution to knowledge that introduces readers from various disciplines to unfamiliar yet compelling ideas and considers familiar texts from novel and prescient perspectives. Philosophizing the Americas stands alone as a representation of current scholarly debates in the field of inter-American philosophy.

Contents:

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction: Prolegomena to Inter-American Philosophy
• Part I - Inter-American Philosophy: Theorizing the Americas
• 1. Inter-American Philosophy: Born of Struggle?
• 2. Bringing Africa to the Americas: The Creolizing of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
• Part II - Inter-American Philosophy of Independence and State Formation
• 3. The 1812 Constitution of Cádiz: From Colonialism to Independence
• 4. Martin Delany and José Martí: Two Thinkers, Two Cubas
• Part III - Inter-American Historicism
• 5. Illuminated in Black: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg's Revolt against Colonial Historicization - An Anti-Colonial Reflection on the Philosophy of (Black) History
• 6. Chaos in the House of Reason: Positivism in the Americas, 1780-1900
• Part IV - Current Trends and Future Possibilities
• 7. Latin American Philosophy Has No Quine, So What?
• 8. Latin American Thought as a Path toward Philosophizing from Radical Exteriority
• 9. Afro-American Writing: Motifs of Place
• Part V - Inter-American Philosophy of Race
• 10. Alain Locke, José Vasconcelos, and José Martí, on Race, Nationality, and Cosmopolitanism
• 11. Reason, Race, and the Human Project: Sylvia Winter, Sociogenesis, and Philosophy in the Americas
• 12. Race, Multiplicity, and Impure Coalitions of Resistance
• Part VI - Inter-American Feminism
• 13. La Negra's Provocation: Corporeal Consciousness in Nuestra Señora de la Noche by Mayra Santos-Febres
• 14. Decolonial Feminisms and Indigenous Women's Resistance to Neoliberalism: Lessons from Abya Yala
• 15. The Menstruating Body Politic: José Martí, Gender, and Sexuality
• List of Contributors
• Index.

Notes:

• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 1-5315-0759-X
• 1-5315-0494-9

OCLC:

1427667515