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Existentialist Thought in African American Literature before 1940

Author : Melvin Hill
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498514811

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Existentialist Thought in African American Literature before 1940 by Melvin Hill Pdf

Existentialist Thought in African American Literature before 1940 consciously acknowledges the existential currents that are profoundly embedded in African American literature, establishing a rich legacy of existentialist thought that predates Richard Wright’s existential birth.This collection fuses together discussions of existentialist thought and African American literature in an effort to rethink and even re-frame African American literary traditions, showing that several texts, and even most canonical texts, lack a systematic study through an existential lens.

A Research Agenda for Organizational Ethics

Author : Jen Jones
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800884205

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A Research Agenda for Organizational Ethics by Jen Jones Pdf

Drawing on the philosophy of existentialism, this thought-provoking Research Agenda questions and encourages deeper ethical thinking about organizational practices during this time of existential crisis. Rather than relying on prescriptive normative ethical theories, it advocates for ethical concerns to be addressed through intersubjective encounters.

Frederick Douglass and the Philosophy of Religion

Author : Timothy J. Golden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739191682

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Frederick Douglass and the Philosophy of Religion by Timothy J. Golden Pdf

Timothy J. Golden presents an existential, phenomenological, and political interpretation of Douglass's use of narrative. Reading Douglass with Kierkegaard, Kafka, Kant, and Levinas, Golden argues that analytic theism is an inauthentic preoccupation with knowledge at the expense of a concrete moral sensibility that Douglass's narrative provides.

The Powers of Dignity

Author : Nick Bromell
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781478012801

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The Powers of Dignity by Nick Bromell Pdf

In The Powers of Dignity Nick Bromell unpacks Frederick Douglass's 1867 claim that he had “elaborated a political philosophy” from his own “slave experience.” Bromell shows that Douglass devised his philosophy because he found that antebellum Americans' liberal-republican understanding of democracy did not provide a sufficient principled basis on which to fight anti-Black racism. To remedy this deficiency, Douglass deployed insights from his distinctively Black experience and developed a Black philosophy of democracy. He began by contesting the founders' racist assumptions about humanity and advancing instead a more robust theory of “the human” as a collection of human “powers.” He asserted further that the conscious exercise of those powers is what confirms human dignity and that human rights and democracy come into being as ways to affirm and protect that dignity. Thus, by emphasizing the powers and the dignity of all citizens, deriving democratic rights from these, and promoting a remarkably activist, power-oriented model of citizenship, Douglass's Black political philosophy aimed to rectify two major failings of US democracy in his time and ours: its complacence and its racism.

On Sympathetic Grounds

Author : Naomi Greyser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190460983

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On Sympathetic Grounds by Naomi Greyser Pdf

Résumé de l'éditeur: "On Sympathetic Grounds lays out sympathy's vital place in shaping North America. Naomi Greyser intersperses theoretical reflection on the affective production of space with analysis of vales of tears, heart-rending oratory, and emplotment of narrative and land in work by Sojourner Truth, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others."

Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience

Author : Tina Fernandes Botts
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498509435

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Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience by Tina Fernandes Botts Pdf

This book explores the experiences and philosophical work product of mixed race philosophers, as well as possible links between the two. Some books address mixed-race identity, and some anthologies focus on mixed-race identity, but this is the first anthology on the philosophy of mixed-race, and the first anthology by mixed-race philosophers.

Pops in Pop Culture

Author : Elizabeth Podnieks
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137577672

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Pops in Pop Culture by Elizabeth Podnieks Pdf

The definitions of fatherhood have shifted in the twenty-first century as paternal subjectivities, conflicts, and desires have registered in new ways in the contemporary family. This collection investigates these sites of change through various lenses from popular culture - film, television, blogs, best-selling fiction and non-fiction, stand-up comedy routines, advertisements, newspaper articles, parenting guide-books, and video games. Treating constructions of the father at the nexus of patriarchy, gender, and (post)feminist philosophy, contributors analyze how fatherhood is defined in relation to masculinity and femininity, and the shifting structures of the heteronormative nuclear family. Perceptions of the father as the traditional breadwinner and authoritarian as compared to a more engaged and involved nurturer are considered via representations of fathers from the US, Canada, Britain, Australia, South Africa, and Sweden.

Existentia Africana

Author : Lewis R. Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135958879

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Existentia Africana by Lewis R. Gordon Pdf

The intellectual history of the last quarter of this century has been marked by the growing influence of Africana thought--an area of philosophy that focuses on issues raised by the struggle over ideas in African cultures and their hybrid forms in Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean. Existentia Africana is an engaging and highly readable introduction to the field of Africana philosophy and will help to define this rapidly growing field. Lewis R. Gordon clearly explains Africana existential thought to a general audience, covering a wide range of both classic and contemporary thinkers--from Douglass and DuBois to Fanon, Davis and Zack.

Critical Affinities

Author : Jacqueline Scott,A. Todd Franklin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791481219

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Critical Affinities by Jacqueline Scott,A. Todd Franklin Pdf

Explores convergences between the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and African American thought.

Discovering Black Existentialism

Author : E. Anthony Muhammad
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004690233

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Discovering Black Existentialism by E. Anthony Muhammad Pdf

In the post-Trump era, the Black lived experience continues to come under assault. Emerging from the suffering imposed on Black bodies comes Black Existential Philosophy, an umbrella term encompassing the multiple depictions of Black life under White subjugation. Whether taking the form of first hand narratives of the lives of enslaved Blacks, the racialized theological discourse of the Nation of Islam, or the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon, the works comprising Black Existentialism offer a look into both the world of the racialized Black “Other” as well as the never-ending quest to recapture and reassert Black humanity. In Discovering Black Existentialism, E. Anthony Muhammad documents his personal and academic journey to Black Existentialism. In doing so, the book illuminates the power of curriculum as a shaping agent in the life of an educator and researcher. As a combination of autobiography, theory, and pedagogy, this work gives the reader an intimate view into the developmental arc of a Black Existentialist scholar. This book offers valuable insights to students searching for direction, to researchers attempting to find meaning in their work, and to educators striving to make their pedagogy relevant to the lives of their students.

Existence in Black

Author : Lewis Ricardo Gordon
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : African American philosophy
ISBN : 0415914515

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Existence in Black by Lewis Ricardo Gordon Pdf

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary on The Comedy of Errors that is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.

Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism, and Art: The Anglophone world

Author : Jon Bartley Stewart
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art and philosophy
ISBN : 140945763X

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Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism, and Art: The Anglophone world by Jon Bartley Stewart Pdf

Vol. 2 is dedicated to the use of Kierkegaard by later Danish writers. Almost from the beginning Kierkegaard's works were standard reading for these authors. Danish novelists and critics from the Modern Breakthrough movement in the 1870s were among the first to make extensive use of his writings. These included the theoretical leader of the movement, the critic Georg Brandes, who wrote an entire book on Kierkegaard, and the novelists Jens Peter Jacobsen and Henrik Pontoppidan

American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History

Author : Gina Misiroglu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317477297

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American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History by Gina Misiroglu Pdf

Counterculture, while commonly used to describe youth-oriented movements during the 1960s, refers to any attempt to challenge or change conventional values and practices or the dominant lifestyles of the day. This fascinating three-volume set explores these movements in America from colonial times to the present in colorful detail. "American Countercultures" is the first reference work to examine the impact of countercultural movements on American social history. It highlights the writings, recordings, and visual works produced by these movements to educate, inspire, and incite action in all eras of the nation's history. A-Z entries provide a wealth of information on personalities, places, events, concepts, beliefs, groups, and practices. The set includes numerous illustrations, a topic finder, primary source documents, a bibliography and a filmography, and an index.

Volume 12, Tome IV: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art

Author : Jon Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351875172

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Volume 12, Tome IV: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art by Jon Stewart Pdf

While Kierkegaard is primarily known as a philosopher or religious thinker, his writings have also been used extensively by literary writers, critics and artists. This use can be traced in the work of major cultural figures not just in Denmark and Scandinavia but also in the wider world. They have been attracted to his creative mixing of genres, his complex use of pseudonyms, his rhetoric and literary style, and his rich images, parables, and allegories. The present volume documents this influence in the different language groups and traditions. Tome IV examines Kierkegaard’s surprisingly extensive influence in the Anglophone world of literature and art, particularly in the United States. His thought appears in the work of the novelists Walker Percy, James Baldwin, Flannery O’Connor, William Styron, Don Delillo, and Louise Erdrich. He has also been used by the famous American literary critics, George Steiner and Harold Bloom. The American composer Samuel Barber made use of Kierkegaard in his musical works. Kierkegaard has also exercised an influence on British and Irish letters. W.H. Auden sought in Kierkegaard ideas for his poetic works, and the contemporary English novelist David Lodge has written a novel Therapy, in which Kierkegaard plays an important role. Cryptic traces of Kierkegaard can also be found in the work of the famous Irish writer James Joyce.

Being Apart

Author : LaRose T. Parris
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813938141

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Being Apart by LaRose T. Parris Pdf

In Being Apart, LaRose Parris draws on traditional and radical Western theory to emphasize how nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africana thinkers explored the two principal existential themes of being and freedom prior to existentialism's rise to prominence in postwar European thought. Emphasizing diasporic connections among the works of authors from the United States, the Caribbean, and the African continent, Parris argues that writers such as David Walker, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, Frantz Fanon, and Kamau Brathwaite refute what she has termed the tripartite crux of Western canonical discourse: the erasure of ancient Africa from the narrative of Western civilization, the dehumanization of the African and the creation of the Negro slave, and the denial of chattel slavery's role in the growth of Western capitalism and empire. These writers’ ontological and phenomenological ruminations not only challenge the assigned historical and epistemological marginality of Africana people but also defy current canonical demarcations. Charting the rise of Eurocentrism through a genealogy of eighteenth-century Enlightenment racial science while foregrounding the lived Africana experience of racism in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Parris shows that racist ideology is intrinsic to modern Western thought rather than being an ideological aberration.