LEWIS R. GORDON
Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Judaic
Studies and Director of the Institute for the Study of Race
and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies
B.A., Lehman College, CUNY, 1984
M.Phil., M.A., Yale University, 1991
Ph.D., Yale University, 1993
Professor Gordon works in the areas of Africana philosophy, philosophy of human and life sciences, phenomenology and philosophy of existence, social and political philosophy, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion and Afro-Jewish Studies. He was Executive Editor of volumes I-V of Radical Philosophy Review: Journal of the Radical Philosophy Association and co-editor of the Routledge book series on Africana thought. He is Ongoing Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Government at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica and is President of the Caribbean
Philosophical Association.
Selected Bibliography
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, forthcoming February 2008.
Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times.
Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, September 2006.
A Companion to African American Studies, edited with an
introduction by Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon. Malden,
MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2006. eBook version was NetLibrary
eBook of the Month, February 2007.
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.
Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential
Thought . New York: Routledge, 2000.
Her Majesty’s Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a
Neocolonial Age with a foreword by Renée T. White. Lanham, MD:
Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. Winner of the Gustavus Myers
Outstanding Book Award for the Study of Human Rights in North
America.
Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential
Philosophy, ed. with an introduction by Lewis R. Gordon. New
York: Routledge, 1997.
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, 1996.
Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy
and the Human Sciences New York: Routledge, 1995.
Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism. Amherst, NY:
Humanity/Prometheus Books, 1999. Originally Published in
Atlantic Highlands, NJ, by Humanities International Press, 1995.
Recent Courses
* Philosophy of Culture (Spring 2007)
* Themes in Existentialism: Faith and Nihilism (Spring 2007)
* Frantz Fanon in Social and Political Philosophy (Fall 2006)
* Recent African Political Thought (Spring 2006)
* Black Existentialism (Spring 2006)
* Foucault in Africana Thought (Fall 2005)
* Pro-Seminar in Twentieth-Century Philosophy (Fall 2005)
* The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre (Spring 2005)
* Afro-American Philosophy (Spring 2005)
* Contemporary African Philosophy (Fall 2004)
* Themes in Existentialism (Fall 2004)
Contact Information
Office: 738 Anderson Hall
Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
Anderson Hall
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone: (215) 204-8290
gordonl@temple.edu
Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought