Philosophizing the Americas

Jacoby Adeshei Carter, Hernando Arturo Estévez (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2024
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5315-0491-5 (ISBN)

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Philosophizing the Americas establishes the field of inter-American philosophy. Bringing together contributors who work in Africana Philosophy, Afro-Caribbean philosophy, Latin American philosophy, Afro-Latin philosophy, decolonial theory, and African American philosophy, the volume examines the full range of traditions that have, separately and in conversation with each other, worked through how philosophy in both establishes itself in the Americas and engages with the world from which it emerges.

The book traces a range of questions, from the history of philosophy in the Americas to philosophical questions of race, feminism, racial eliminativism, creolization, epistemology, coloniality, aesthetics, and literature. The essays place an impressive range of philosophical traditions and figures into dialogue with one another: some familiar, such as José Martí, Sylvia Wynter, Martin R. Delany, José Vasconcelos, Alain Locke, as well as such less familiar thinkers as Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Hilda Hilst, and George Lamming. In each chapter, the contributors find fascinating and productive matrices of tension or convergence in works throughout the Americas. The result is an original and important contribution to knowledge that introduces readers from various disciplines to unfamiliar yet compelling ideas and considers familiar texts from novel and prescient perspectives. Philosophizing the Americas stands alone as a representation of current scholarly debates in the field of inter-American philosophy.

Jacoby Adeshei Carter (Edited By) Jacoby Adeshei Carter is an associate professor of philosophy, and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Howard University. He is the director of the Alain Leroy Locke Society, author of African American Contributions to the Americas’ Cultures: Lectures by Alain Locke and co-editor of Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond and Insurrectionist Ethics: Radical Perspectives on Social Justice. He is also series editor of African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora, published by Palgrave/Macmillan. Hernando Arturo Estévez (Edited By) Hernando A. Estévez was educated at DePaul University and Indiana University. He works on Latin American philosophy, political philosophy and continental philosophy. He is currently chair and professor of the Department of Philosophy, Arts and Literature, and former Dean of the School of Philosophy at Universidad de La Salle in Bogotá. Hernando is the editor and contributor of Teaching to Discern: forming connections, decolonizing perspectives (Bogotá: Ediciones UniSalle, 2019).

Introduction: Prolegomena to Inter-American Philosophy

Jacoby Adeshei Carter | 1

PART I –INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY: THEORIZING THE AMERICAS

1 Inter-American Philosophy: Born of Struggle?

Daniel Fryer | 11

2 Bringing Africa to the Americas: The Creolizing of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy

Chike Jeffers | 28

PART II –INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF INDEPENDENCE AND STATE FORMATION

3 The 1812 Constitution of Cádiz: From Colonialism to Independence

Hernando A. Estévez | 49

4 Martin Delany and José Martí: Two Thinkers, Two Cubas

Dwayne A. Tunstall | 68

PART III –INTER-AMERICAN HISTORICISM

5 Illuminated in Black: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg’s Revolt against

Colonial Historicization—An Anti-Colonial Reflection on the Philosophy of (Black) History

Tommy J. Curry | 93

6 Chaos in the House of Reason: Positivism in the Americas, 1780–1900

Adriana Novoa | 117

PART IV –CURRENT TRENDS AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES

7 Latin American Philosophy Has No Quine, So What?

Susana Nuccetelli | 147

8 Latin American Thought as a Path toward Philosophizing from Radical Exteriority

Alejandro A. Vallega | 162

9 Afro-American Writing: Motifs of Place

James B. Haile, III | 193

PART V –INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF RACE

10 Alain Locke, José Vasconcelos, and José Martí, on Race, Nationality, and Cosmopolitanism

Jacoby Adeshei Carter | 235

11 Reason, Race, and the Human Project: Sylvia Winter,

Sociogenesis, and Philosophy in the Americas

Michael Monahan | 261

12 Race, Multiplicity, and Impure Coalitions of Resistance

Lee A. McBride, III | 284

PART VI –INTER-AMERICAN FEMINISM

13 La Negra’s Provocation: Corporeal Consciousness in

Nuestra Señora de la Noche by Mayra Santos-Febres

Nadia V. Celis Salgado | 307

14 Decolonial Feminisms and Indigenous Women’s

Resistance to Neoliberalism: Lessons from Abya Yala

Andrea J. Pitts | 326

15 The Menstruating Body Politic: José Martí, Gender, and Sexuality

Stephanie Rivera Berruz | 350

List of Contributors | 367

Index | 371

Erscheinungsdatum	08.02.2024
Co-Autor	Stephanie Rivera Berruz, Jacoby Adeshei Carter, Nadia Celis
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5315-0491-4 / 1531504914
ISBN-13	978-1-5315-0491-5 / 9781531504915
Zustand	Neuware