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An Introduction to Africana Philosophy
by Lewis R. Gordon

    Publication Date: May 01, 2008
    List Price: $46.99
    Format: Paperback, 288 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780521675468
    Imprint: Cambridge University Press
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press
    Parent Company: Cambridge University

    Description of An Introduction to Africana Philosophy by Lewis R. Gordon

    In this undergraduate textbook Lewis R. Gordon offers the first comprehensive treatment of Africana philosophy, beginning with the emergence of an Africana (i.e. African diasporic) consciousness in the Afro-Arabic world of the Middle Ages. He argues that much of modern thought emerged out of early conflicts between Islam and Christianity that culminated in the expulsion of the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula, and from the subsequent expansion of racism, enslavement, and colonialism which in their turn stimulated reflections on reason, liberation, and the meaning of being human. His book takes the student reader on a journey from Africa through Europe, North and South America, the Caribbean, and back to Africa, as he explores the challenges posed to our understanding of knowledge and freedom today, and the response to them which can be found within Africana philosophy.