Black Existentialism

danielle davis has held tenured lectureships at the University of New South Wales and University of Technology, Queensland in Australia. She is currently an ongoing academic at the University of New England in Australia.

This book is a work of living philosophy. Grounded in the work one of our era’s great thinkers, it shows us how Lewis R. Gordon addresses the triumphs and failures of previous generations of philosophers, how today’s philosophers are extending his work, and it provides the contours of a rigorous philosophy that can guide us towards a bright future.

• Introduction, danielle davis / 1. Towards a Radical Humanities, Nigel C. Gibson / 2. Against Bad Faith, for Living Thought: Towards a Pedagogy of Absences, Conflict and Emergences, Julia Suarez-Krabbe / 3. Consideration on the Theoretical Dimension of Lewis Ricardo Gordon's Thought for Brazilian Intellectual Production, Rosemere Ferreira / 4. Sociotelic Reflections on Lewis Gordon's Anticolonial Imagination, Walter R. Isaac / 5. The Revolutionary Language of Black Existentialism, Devon R. Johnson / 6. The Transformative Power of Lewis Gordon's Africana Philosophy in Mandela's House, Mabogo More / 7. Gordon and Feminism, Lisa M. Anderson / 8. I Can't Quite Put My Finger On It: Racism's Touch, Shirley Tate / 9. Lewis Gordon: Existential Incantations that Cross Borders and Move Us Forward, Catherine Walsh / 10. Plural Racial Ontologies, danielle davis / 11. A Phenomenological and Psychodynamic Reflection on Freedom and Oppression Following the Guiding Thread of Lewis Gordon's Existential Phenomenology of Oppress