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Black Existence in Philosophy of Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Lewis R. Gordon
Lewis R. Gordon*
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University of Connecticut, USA
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Lewis R. Gordon, 205 Manchester Hall, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-1054, USA. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

This article examines an Africana philosophy of culture of black existence through, after offering a critique of a theodicy of textuality and social reality, exploration of the construction of “problem people,” of people whose existence, marked by blackness, has been treated as a challenge to reason and the search for knowledge in the modern world. As Africana philosophy raises concerns of philosophical anthropology, philosophy of freedom, and a metacritique of reason, it offers, as well, a case for the central importance of philosophy of culture in modern and late modern thought.

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Diogenes , Volume 59 , Issue 3-4: Africana Philosophy , November 2012 , pp. 96 - 105
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Copyright © ICPHS 2013

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