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Lewis
R.
Gordon is Director of the Institute for the Study of Race
and Social Thought. He also is Director of the Center for Afro-Jewish
Studies and a Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple
University and President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
Professor Gordon has written many works in race theory, Africana
philosophy, postcolonial phenomenology, philosophy of existence, social
and political philosophy, film and literature, philosophy of education,
philosophy of human sciences, and a variety of topics in the public
interest. Before joining Temple, he taught at Brown University for
eight years, during which the program in Afro-American Studies became
the Department of Africana Studies under his leadership as chairperson.
He also taught at Purdue University and Yale University, and he is
Ongoing Visiting Professor of Government and Philosophy at the
University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. Professor Gordon has
presented lectures internationally, and has been a recipient of
numerous awards and distinguished fellowships.
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Interviews with Lewis Gordon
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Books in print by Professor Gordon
1 Bad
Faith
and Antiblack Racism. Amherst, NY: Humanity/Prometheus
Books, 1999. Originally Published in Atlantic Highlands, NJ, by
Humanities International Press, January 1995. xiv+222 pp.
2
Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An
Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences. New York:
Routledge, September 1995. xiii+137 pp.
3
Fanon: A Critical Reader, ed. with an
introduction and translations by Lewis R. Gordon, T. Denean
Sharpley-Whiting, and Renée T. White, and a foreword by Leonard
Harris and Carolyn Johnson, and an afterword by Joy Ann James.
Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, July 1996. xxi +345 pp.
4
Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black
Existential Philosophy, ed. with an introduction by Lewis R.
Gordon. New York: Routledge, January 1997. xviii+328 pp.
5
Her Majesty’s Other Children: Sketches of
Racism from a Neocolonial Age, with a foreword by Renée T.
White. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, September 1997.
xvii+282 pp. Winner of the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book
Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America.
6
Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana
Existential Thought. New York: Routledge, April 2000.
xii + 228 pp.
7
Not Only the Master’s Tools:
African-American Studies in Theory and Practice, edited with an
introduction by Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon. Boulder, CO:
Paradigm Publishers, 2006. xiii+ 321 pp.
8
A Companion to African-American Studies,
edited
with an introduction by Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna
Gordon. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, January 2006.
xxxv + 668 pp.
9 Disciplinary
Decadence:
Living Thought in Trying Times. Boulder, CO:
Paradigm Publishers, 2006. x + 173 pp. Serbian trans. (at
press)—Belgrade: Hedone Publishers.
10 An Introduction to
Africana Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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with Jane Gordon, Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the
Modern Age. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2009.
X+176 pp.
Articles by Lewis Gordon
1 “Fanon dans la pensée politique africaine
récente,” Penser aujourd'hui à partir de Frantz
Fanon, Actes du colloque Fanon, Éditions en ligne, CSPRP -
Université Paris, 7, Février 2008.
2 "George Lamming the Existentialist," The Center for
Africana Studies Working Papers Series, Johns Hopkins University,
WP006, 2007.
3 "The Problem of Maturity in
Hip Hop," The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies,
27:367-389, 2005.
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4 "Through the Zone of
Nonbeing: A Reading of Black Skin, White Masks in Celebration of
Fanon's Eightieth Birthday," CLR James Journal, Volume 11, Number 1,
Summer 2005.
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5 Foreward to In
Every Tongue: The Racial & Ethnic Diversity of the Jewish People.
San
Francisco: Institute for Jewish & Community Research, 2005.
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Book Chapters
1 "Problematic People and Epistemic Decolonization: Toward
the Postcolonial in Africana Political Thought", in Postcolonialism
and Political Theory, ed. with an intro. by Nalini Persram.
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, forthcoming.
Click here to read a selection of "Problematic People
and Epistemic Decolonization: Toward the Postcolonial in Africana
Political Thought."
2 “Sartre and Black Existentialism", in Race after Sartre,
ed.
by Jonathan Judaken. Albany, NY: State University of New York
Press, forthcoming.
Click here to read a selection of "Sartre
and Black Existentialism."
Forthcoming work
1 On the
Afro-Jewish Question. Forthcoming, 2008.
Interviews with Professor Gordon
A Philosophical Account of Africana Studies: An
Interview with Lewis Gordon, by Linda Martin
Alcoff
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Gordon
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