HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):
   Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):
   Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

   Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):
   Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:
   Romanticism (1785-1830):
      Romantic Literature
   Mid-Century/Fin de Siècle (1830-1900):
      'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:
   Analytic Philosophy

   Continental Theory:
      Idealism

      Marxism

      Phenom., Existent., Hermeneutics

      Psychoanalysis

      (Post-)Structuralisms:

         Deconstruction

         Deleuzean Theory

         Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)

         Foucauldian Discourse Theory

         Semiology / Structuralism

         Structuralist Marxism

         Structuralist Psychoanalysis

   Modernism, Myth & New Criticism

   Pragmatism

 

   Feminist Theory

   Post-colonial Theory

 

   Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

   Central Asia

   East Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

   Central Europe

   Eastern Europe:

      Russia:

        Literature

   Northern Europe:

      Literature

   Southern Europe:

      Greece:

         Literature

      Italy:

         Literature

      Spain:

         Literature

   Western Europe:

      France:

         Literature

      Germany:

         Literature

      UK and Eire:

         Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

   Arabic/Islamic Thought:

      Literature

   Israeli/Jewish Thought:

      Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

   African American Thought:

      Literature

   Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

   Architecture
   Arts, Visual and Plastic

   Film

   Literature:

      Author

      Literary Form & Genre:

         Drama

         Poetry

         Prose

      Literary History, Intertextuality, Canon.

      Metaliterature

      Reader

      Representation

   Music
   Other Media (e.g. Photography)

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

   Discourse Studies
   Philosophy of Language & Logic
   Linguistics

   Rhetoric & Argumentation Theory

   Semiotics

 

   Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

   Medical Humanities
   Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

   Psychology

 

   Gender

   Race

   Sexuality

 

   Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

  

LEWIS R. GORDON (1962 - )

Homepage (Temple University)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought.  London: Routledge, 2000.

    • Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism from Another Age.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.

  • Edited Works:

    • A Companion to African-American Studies.  Ed. and intro. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.  Also pub. as Not Only the Master’s Tools: African-American Studies in Theory and Practice.  Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2006. 

    • Existence in Black: an Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1997.

    • Fanon: a Critical Reader.  Ed. Gordon, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Renée T. White.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • An Introduction to Africana Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 2008.

    • "What is Caribbean Philosophy?"  Philosophy in Multiple Voices.  Ed. George Yancy.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.

    • "Africana Thought and African-Diasporic Studies."  A Companion to African-American Studies.  Ed. and intro. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.  Also pub. as Not Only the Master’s Tools: African-American Studies in Theory and Practice.  Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2006.  590-598.

    • Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times.  Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2006.

    • "African-American Existential Philosophy."  Companion to African American Philosophy.  Ed. Tommy L. Lott and John Pittman.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.  33-47.

    • "The Problem of Biography in the Study of the Thought of Black Intellectuals."  Small Axe 4 (1998): 47-63.

      • Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought.  London: Routledge, 2000. 

    • "Existential Dynamics of Theorizing Black Invisibility."  Existence in Black: an Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1997.  69-79. 

      • Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought.  London: Routledge, 2000. 

    • "Tragic Dimensions of our Neocolonial 'Postcolonial World."  Postcolonial African Philosophy: a Critical Reader.  Ed. Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.  243-251.

    • Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism.  Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities, 1995.

    • Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: an Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences.  London: Routledge, 1995.

    • "African Philosophy's Search for Identity: Existential Considerations of a Recent Effort." 

      • Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism from Another Age.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.  139-148.

    • "In a Black Antiblack Philosophy." 

      • Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism from Another Age.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.  115-138.

    • "Exilic 'Amateur' Speaking Truth to Power: Edward Said." 

      • Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism from Another Age.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.  179-191.

    • "Fanon, Philosophy and Race."  R

      • Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism from Another Age.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.  25-50.

    • "Race, Biraciality, and Mixed Race -- in Theory." 

      • Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism from Another Age.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.  51-71.

    • "Sex, Race, and Matrices of Desire in an Antiblack World."  73-87.

      • Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism from Another Age.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.  73-88.

    • "Tragic Intellectuals on the Neocolonial-Postcolonial Divide." 

      • Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism from Another Age.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.  165-177.

    • "Uses and Abuses of Blackness: Postmodernism, Conservatism, Ideology." 

      • Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism from Another Age.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.  89-114.

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

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  • Selected Individual Works:

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On-Line:

 

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