Africana Philosophy as Prolegomenon to Any Future American Philosophy Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • ABSTRACT The whiteness of American philosophy must be appreciated as an epistemological and ontological achievement. Thus, I contend that the only way forward for American philosophy entails an Africana philosophical critique, which consists of two methodological venturesone deconstructive and the other radical. I will briefly present six voices that exemplify this Africana philosophical critique. The deconstructive voices include (1) Sylvia Wynter's genealogy of MAN, (2) Leonard Harris's insurrectionist challenge to Pragmatism, and (3) Charles Mills's and Chandra Mohanty's rejection of Ideal Theory. The radical voices include (1) Lewis Gordon's Africana-existential-phenomenology as a decolonial antidote to Eurocentrism, (2) Tommy Curry's culturalogical solution to the derelictical and methodological crises of African American philosophy, and (3) Africana literature as new philosophy.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY

altmetric score

  • 1

author list (cited authors)

  • Jaima, A. R.

citation count

  • 2

complete list of authors

  • Jaima, Amir R

publication date

  • January 2018