Category: Books

• April 7, 2020

  Leonard Harris Reader

  A Philosophy of Struggle (Bloomsbury Academic) 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. https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Struggle-Leonard-Harris-Reader/dp/1350084190/ Harris’ writings on honor, insurrectionist ethics, tradition, and his work on Alain Locke have established him as a leading figure in critical philosophy. His…
• May 3, 2015

  The African American Philosophy and the Diaspora Book Series

  African American intellectual history is replete with profound reflections and criticisms of a philosophical nature on the historical experiences of African descendant peoples in the Americas. The philosophic thought of African American men and women on prevailing American conceptions of freedom, liberation, race, equality, democracy, and personhood, have been among the most philosophically fecund in…
• March 1, 2011

  Locke’s Philosophy: Philosophic Values and World Citizenship

  “Philosophic Values and World Citizenship is a Sankofan knockout to the all too common conversations in American philosophy that continue to overlook the significance of Alain Locke in pragmatism, preferring instead the stolid rhetoric of canonical figures—like John Dewey or Josiah Royce—who held incomplete (racially excluding) democratic visions. Carter and Harris have compiled an array…
• July 5, 2009

  Alain Locke’s Haiti Lectures in French

  LE ROLE DU NEGRE DANS LA CULTURE DES AMÉRIQUES Alain LEROY LOCKE Présentation d’Anthony MANGEON Mangeon provides for the first time Locke’s six lectures on Haiti, translated and published in French. In addition, he translated into French Locke’s: “American literary tradition and the Negro” (1926), “The Negro in American Culture” (1939) and “Color : Unfinished…
• February 7, 2009

  New Book: Alain Locke Biography

  View Cover Endorsements by Appiah, Rampersad, and West Order Today from University of Chicago Press Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher 448 pages, 21 halftones 6 x 9 © 2008 Philosophy professor Harris and English professor Molesworth fuse disciplines in this groundbreaking study of Locke (1885–1954), the preeminent…