A Philosophy of Struggle

The Leonard Harris Reader

Leonard Harris (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-08419-3 (ISBN)

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Collating, for the first time, the key writings of Leonard Harris, this volume introduces readers to a leading figure in African-American and liberatory thought.

Harris’ writings on honor, insurrectionist ethics, tradition, and his work on Alain Locke have established him as a leading figure in critical philosophy. His timely and urgent responses to structural racism and structural violence mark him out as a bold cultural commentator and a deft theoretician.

The wealth and depth of Harris’ writings are brought to the fore in this collection and the incisive introduction by Lee McBride serves to orient, contextualize, and frame an oeuvre that spans four decades. In his prolegomenon, Harris eschews the classical meaning of “philosophy,” supplanting it with an idiosyncratic conception of philosophy—philosophia nata ex conatu—that features an avowedly value-laden dimension. As well as serving as an introduction to Harris’ philosophy, A Philosophy of Struggle provides new insights into how we ought conceptualize philosophy, race, tradition, and insurrection in the 21st century.

Leonard Harris is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, USA. He is a specialist in the work of Alain LeRoy Locke and a founding member of Philosophy Born of Struggle (PBOS). Lee A. McBride III is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The College of Wooster, USA.

Acknowledgements
Source Acknowledgements

Editor’s Introduction

Part I Prolegomenon
1) What, then, is ‘Philosophy Born of Struggle’?Philosophia nata ex conatu

Part II Immiseration and Racism (Oppression as Necro-being)
2) The Concept of Racism: An Essentially Contested Concept? (1998)
3) What, Then, Is Racism? (1999)
4) Necro-Being: An Actuarial Account of Racism (2018)

Part III Honor and Dignity (Reason and Efficacious Agency)
5) Autonomy Under Duress (1992)
6) Honor: Emasculation and Empowerment (1992)
7) Tolerance, Reconciliation and Groups (2003)
8) Dignity and Subjection (2018)

Part IV An Ethics of Insurrection; Or, Leaving the Asylum (Virtues of Tenacity)
9) Honor and Insurrection or A Short Story about why John Brown (with David Walker’s Spirit) was Right and Frederick Douglass (with Benjamin Banneker’s Spirit) was Wrong (1999)
10) Insurrectionist Ethics: Advocacy, Moral Psychology, and Pragmatism (2002)
11) Can a Pragmatist Recite A Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note? Or Insurrectionist Challenges to Pragmatism—Walker, Child, and Locke (2018)

Part V Bridges to Future Traditions
12) Universal Human Liberation: Community and Multiculturalism (1998)
13) Community: What Type of Entity and What Type of Moral Commitment? (2001)
14) Tradition and Modernity: Panopticons and Barricados
15) The Horror of Tradition or How to Burn Babylon and Build Benin While Reading A Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (1997)
16) Telos and Tradition: Making the Future—Bridges to Future Traditions (2014)

Erscheinungsdatum	29.04.2020
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 232 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-350-08419-0 / 1350084190
ISBN-13	978-1-350-08419-3 / 9781350084193
Zustand	Neuware