Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy,
with Affiliation in Religion and Judaic Studies
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. As of summer 2013, Professor Gordon will no longer be on faculty at Temple University and will be on faculty at the University of Connecticut at Storrs.
Audio of Lectures and Interviews with Lewis Gordon
From the W.E.B. Du Bois Symposium at Temple University on Feb. 24-25, 2012,
Lewis Gordon presents “W.E.B. Du Bois and Philosophy in a Time of Crisis.” CLICK HERE to watch at youtube, or stream below.
Rob Redding talks to Dr. Lewis Gordon on Obama backing Affirmative Action. CLICK HERE to listen at youtube, or stream below.
From the "Africana Philosophy and Physics" session at the CPA meeting in St. Augustine, Trinidad, a discussion with Lewis Gordon and Stephon Alexander.
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Lewis Gordon presents "Race in the Birth of the Human Sciences" at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London. CLICK HERE to download the audio, or stream below.
Lewis Gordon discusses the legacy of Frantz Fanon at the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities at the University of Memphis.
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Lewis Gordon delivers the annual Sprague/Taylor Lecture at Brooklyn College on May 6, 2010, titled "Black Existence and Philosophy of Culture."
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Lewis Gordon discusses the legacy of Jean-Paul Sartre with John Gerassi at the Brecht Forum. CLICK HERE to dowload the audio, or stream below.
Lewis Gordon speaks about Africana
Philosophy today (11-minute interview with Darryl Scriven conducted at Philosophy
Born
of Struggle X). CLICK
HERE to dowload the audio, or stream below.
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.
2Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An
Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences. New York:
Routledge, September 1995. xiii+137 pp.
3Fanon: 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.
4Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black
Existential Philosophy, ed. with an introduction by Lewis R.
Gordon. New York: Routledge, January 1997. xviii+328 pp.
5Her 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.
6Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana
Existential Thought. New York: Routledge, April 2000.
xii + 228 pp.
7Not 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.
8A 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.
10An Introduction to
Africana Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
2007.
11
with Jane Gordon, Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the
Modern Age. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2009.
X+176 pp.
12
with Walter Mignolo, Alejandro de Oto, and Sylvia Wynter, La teoría política en la encrucijada descolonial. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Del Signo ediciones, 2009. 162 pp.
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.
Institute for the Study of Race and Social
Thought
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