The eminent scholar Lewis R. Gordon offers a probing meditation on
freedom, justice, and decolonization. What is there to be understood
and done when it is evident that the search for justice, which
dominates social and political philosophy of the North, is an
insufficient approach for the achievements of dignity, freedom,
liberation, and revolution? Gordon takes the reader on a journey as he
interrogates a trail from colonized philosophy to re-imagining
liberation and revolution to critical challenges raised by
Afropessimism, theodicy, and looming catastrophe. He offers not
forecast and foreclosure but instead an urgent call for dignifying and
urgent acts of political commitment. Such movements take the form of
examining what philosophy means in Africana philosophy, liberation in
decolonial thought, and the decolonization of justice and normative
life. Gordon issues a critique of the obstacles to cultivating
emancipatory politics, challenging reductionist forms of thought that
proffer harm and suffering as conditions of political appearance and
the valorization of nonhuman being. He asserts instead emancipatory
considerations for occluded forms of life and the irreplaceability of
existence in the face of catastrophe and ruin, and he concludes,
through a discussion with the Circassian philosopher and decolonial
theorist, Madina Tlostanova, with the project of shifting the
geography of reason.
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9781000244731
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2020
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Routledge
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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