Volume 1, Dossier 3 (Fall 2006) • Contents
Post-continental Philosophy
Introduction to the Dossier
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Coordinator
Articles
Post-Continental Philosophy: Its Definition, Contours, and Fundamental Sources
Nelson MALDONADO-TORRES
Nelson Maldonado-Torres looks toward the boundaries of analytical and continental philosophy and augurs a post-continentatl philsophy that uses the arsenal of these bodies of thought to analyze and interpret problems related to colonialism, racism, and sexism in the contemporary world. Additionally, he points toward the new sciences and forms of study, such as African Diaspora Studies, Ethnic Studies and related programs, which demand a self-reflection of their own, without submitting their imperatives and unique approaches to the evaluation of analytic and continental philosophers.
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Through the Zone of Non-being: A Reading of Black Skin, White Masks in Celebration of Fanon's Eightieth Birthday
Lewis R. GORDON
In celebration of Frantz Fanon’s eightieth birth, Gordon explores Fanon’s socioigenic approach in Black Skin, White Masks and argues that through Fanon's particular engagement of human failure and “non-beingness” that a new type of text and discourse emerges. He proposes that Fanon traverses both disciplinary and linguistic boundaries to challenge the viability of any single science providing a comprehensive analysis of human beings.
Apuntes sobre historia y cuerpos coloniales: algunas razones para seguir leyendo a Fanon
Alejandro de OTO
De Oto argues that in the same way that modern and imperial/colonial epistemology (knowledge) emerged from modern bodies (generally bodies located in the colonizer's frame of mind and carrying the imprint of the modern trace (from Greece and Rome to Western Europe)), a de-colonial epistemology emerges from the forces, energies and angers of colonial bodies. He, therefore, insists upon a continued and sustained reading of Frantz Fanon as Fanon critiques capitalism, imperialism, and their racial/colonial violence.
Enrique Dussell and Manuel Zapata Olivella: An Exploration of De-colonial, Diasporic, and Trans-modern Selves and the Politics of Recognition
Gertrude James GONZALEZ DE ALLEN
This paper represents a conversation between Enrique Dussel’s interpretation of trans-modernity, Afro-Latin thinker Manuel Zapata Olivella’s ideas about identity, and Gonzalez de Allen's articulation of the “discourse of memory.” Specifically, it makes linkages between knowledge, memory, and Diaspora and Enrique Dussel’s engagement of the politics of recognition and Charles Taylor’s Sources of the Self, in the book The Underside of Modernity: Apel, Ricoeur, Rorty, Taylor and the Philosophy o f Liberation.
Africana Phenomenology: Its Philosophical Implications
Paget HENRY
Paget Henry explores the theoretical side of African studies through a discussion of the field of Africana phenomenology. Henry outlines its contours, problems, and theorists by attending to the works of WEB Dubois, Frantz Fanon, and Lewis Gordon. Finally, Henry argues that the emergence of African Philosohy, particularly Africana phenomenology, demands that philosophy adopt a more comparative approach.
Legitimacy from Modernity's Underside: Potientated Double Consciousness
Jane GORDON
Jane Gordon addresses the question of legitimation from the standpoint of those who are in tension with the system, of those who offer themselves as friend but are treated in turn as the antithesis of the presented legitimate order. She engages the thought of WEB Du Bois and particularly his construction of double consciousness as a means to further understand legitimation and its relationship to the post-continental project.
The Idea of Post European Science
Kenneth KNIES
Kenneth Knies argues that the attempt to think beyond the imperial reach of Europe has generated new forms of systematic inquiry that signal a new epoch of Science. These new inquiries or Post-European sciences are actual disciplines, such as Africana Studies, Ethnic Studies, Latin America Studies, that point toward a radical rethinking of theory itself or what Knies calls a turning point in the life of Reason. Knies locates the significance of this turn by looking at these sciences’ relationship to transcendental phenomenology.
By Way of Conclusion
The Philosophy of the Sea: History, Economics, and Reason in the Caribbean
Esiaba IROBI
By using Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s redefinition of phenomenology, Irobi shows, from an African and African diasporic epistemic and performative perspective, how phenomenology is best understood not through abstract thinking or intellectual sumo wrestling or literary textbook-bound knowledge but through the experiential, physical dimension of embodied performance as realized in many African and African diasporic working class, religious, social and political communities.
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