Philosophizing the Americas
Published on 16. April 2024
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-1-5315-0492-2 (ISBN)
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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 Jose Marti, Sylvia Wynter, Martin R. Delany, Jose 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.
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 Jose Marti, Sylvia Wynter, Martin R. Delany, Jose 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.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
703 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5315-0492-2 (9781531504922)
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Jacoby Adeshei Carter (Edited By)
Jacoby Adeshei Carter is an associate professor of philosophy, and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Howard University. He is the director of the Alain Leroy Locke Society, author of African American Contributions to the Americas' Cultures: Lectures by Alain Locke and co-editor of Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond and Insurrectionist Ethics: Radical Perspectives on Social Justice. He is also series editor of African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora, published by Palgrave/Macmillan.
Hernando Arturo Estevez (Edited By)
Hernando A. Estevez was educated at DePaul University and Indiana University. He works on Latin American philosophy, political philosophy and continental philosophy. He is currently chair and professor of the Department of Philosophy, Arts and Literature, and former Dean of the School of Philosophy at Universidad de La Salle in Bogota. Hernando is the editor and contributor of Teaching to Discern: forming connections, decolonizing perspectives (Bogota: Ediciones UniSalle, 2019).
Jacoby Adeshei Carter is an associate professor of philosophy, and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Howard University. He is the director of the Alain Leroy Locke Society, author of African American Contributions to the Americas' Cultures: Lectures by Alain Locke and co-editor of Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond and Insurrectionist Ethics: Radical Perspectives on Social Justice. He is also series editor of African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora, published by Palgrave/Macmillan.
Hernando Arturo Estevez (Edited By)
Hernando A. Estevez was educated at DePaul University and Indiana University. He works on Latin American philosophy, political philosophy and continental philosophy. He is currently chair and professor of the Department of Philosophy, Arts and Literature, and former Dean of the School of Philosophy at Universidad de La Salle in Bogota. Hernando is the editor and contributor of Teaching to Discern: forming connections, decolonizing perspectives (Bogota: Ediciones UniSalle, 2019).
Content
Introduction: Prolegomena to Inter-American Philosophy
Jacoby Adeshei Carter 1
PART I -INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY: THEORIZING THE AMERICAS
1 Inter-American Philosophy: Born of Struggle?
Daniel Fryer 11
2 Bringing Africa to the Americas: The Creolizing of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
Chike Jeffers 28
PART II -INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF INDEPENDENCE AND STATE FORMATION
3 The 1812 Constitution of Cadiz: From Colonialism to Independence
Hernando A. Estevez 49
4 Martin Delany and Jose Marti: Two Thinkers, Two Cubas
Dwayne A. Tunstall 68
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
Tommy J. Curry 93
6 Chaos in the House of Reason: Positivism in the Americas, 1780-1900
Adriana Novoa 117
PART IV -CURRENT TRENDS AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
7 Latin American Philosophy Has No Quine, So What?
Susana Nuccetelli 147
8 Latin American Thought as a Path toward Philosophizing from Radical Exteriority
Alejandro A. Vallega 162
9 Afro-American Writing: Motifs of Place
James B. Haile, III 193
PART V -INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF RACE
10 Alain Locke, Jose Vasconcelos, and Jose Marti, on Race, Nationality, and Cosmopolitanism
Jacoby Adeshei Carter 235
11 Reason, Race, and the Human Project: Sylvia Winter,
Sociogenesis, and Philosophy in the Americas
Michael Monahan 261
12 Race, Multiplicity, and Impure Coalitions of Resistance
Lee A. McBride, III 284
PART VI -INTER-AMERICAN FEMINISM
13 La Negra's Provocation: Corporeal Consciousness in
Nuestra Senora de la Noche by Mayra Santos-Febres
Nadia V. Celis Salgado 307
14 Decolonial Feminisms and Indigenous Women's
Resistance to Neoliberalism: Lessons from Abya Yala
Andrea J. Pitts 326
15 The Menstruating Body Politic: Jose Marti, Gender, and Sexuality
Stephanie Rivera Berruz 350
List of Contributors 367
Index 371
Jacoby Adeshei Carter 1
PART I -INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY: THEORIZING THE AMERICAS
1 Inter-American Philosophy: Born of Struggle?
Daniel Fryer 11
2 Bringing Africa to the Americas: The Creolizing of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
Chike Jeffers 28
PART II -INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF INDEPENDENCE AND STATE FORMATION
3 The 1812 Constitution of Cadiz: From Colonialism to Independence
Hernando A. Estevez 49
4 Martin Delany and Jose Marti: Two Thinkers, Two Cubas
Dwayne A. Tunstall 68
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
Tommy J. Curry 93
6 Chaos in the House of Reason: Positivism in the Americas, 1780-1900
Adriana Novoa 117
PART IV -CURRENT TRENDS AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
7 Latin American Philosophy Has No Quine, So What?
Susana Nuccetelli 147
8 Latin American Thought as a Path toward Philosophizing from Radical Exteriority
Alejandro A. Vallega 162
9 Afro-American Writing: Motifs of Place
James B. Haile, III 193
PART V -INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF RACE
10 Alain Locke, Jose Vasconcelos, and Jose Marti, on Race, Nationality, and Cosmopolitanism
Jacoby Adeshei Carter 235
11 Reason, Race, and the Human Project: Sylvia Winter,
Sociogenesis, and Philosophy in the Americas
Michael Monahan 261
12 Race, Multiplicity, and Impure Coalitions of Resistance
Lee A. McBride, III 284
PART VI -INTER-AMERICAN FEMINISM
13 La Negra's Provocation: Corporeal Consciousness in
Nuestra Senora de la Noche by Mayra Santos-Febres
Nadia V. Celis Salgado 307
14 Decolonial Feminisms and Indigenous Women's
Resistance to Neoliberalism: Lessons from Abya Yala
Andrea J. Pitts 326
15 The Menstruating Body Politic: Jose Marti, Gender, and Sexuality
Stephanie Rivera Berruz 350
List of Contributors 367
Index 371