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Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy
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 culture, 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 is Ongoing Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Government at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica; and President Emeritus of the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
Selected Bibliography
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy. Cambridge, UK:Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times.Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 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. NewYork: 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, Spring 2009)
* Philosophy of History (Fall 2009)
* Themes in Existentialism: Faith and Nihilism (Spring 2007,Fall 2008, Spring 2009)
* Rastafari: Philosophy, Politics, and Theology (Fall 2009)
* 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, Fall 2008)
* 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
Lewis R. Gordon, Ph.D.
Laura H. Carnell University Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies
738 Anderson Hall
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone: 215-204-8290/ISRST 215-204-5621 / Fax: 215-204-6266 / ISRST fax: 215-204-2535
additional email: ISRST@temple.edu
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