Black Existentialism

Essays on the Transformative Thought of Lewis R. Gordon

By: danielle davis (Editor)

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Few contemporary intellectuals have attempted to inform theory, the academy and social change as does Lewis Gordon. Following his own path of Fanon, Cesaire and Said, Gordon’s work is an urgent call to action that is critical ‘in the trying times’ in which we find ourselves.

In this important book, international scholars from many disciplines and areas of life engage in Gordon’s work to prod, rattle and rethink our thinking to inform and change our practices as humans in institutions, politics, and the personal, legal and social paradigms. The book focuses on the importance of radical theory and thinkers to push for projects of change in the area of Black Existentialism. Gordon’s now extensive oeuvre personifies this. The essays use the work of Lewis Gordon to demonstrate how theory and thought be can used for transformation of existence, antiracism and critiques of alterity, resistance, pedagogy, political action theory and disciplinary decadence in the academy and beyond.

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This is an excellent collection of essays by outstanding scholars who each reflect on how the work of Gordon transformed their own. The contributors come from disciplines such as Africana thought, Afrocentricity, Afro-Jewish studies, Black feminist thought, critical race studies, Fanonian studies, gender and feminist studies, philosophy and psychoanalysis. The essays offer insight into current scholarship on decoloniality, the politics of race, gender and identity, among others. A scrumptious collection indeed!