Author: Lewis R. Gordon File Type: pdf The intellectual history of the last quarter of the 20th 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. This book presents an introduction to the field of Africana philosophy and aims to help define this rapidly growing field. Lewis R. Gordon introduces and discusses Africana existential thought for a general audience, covering a range of both classic and contemporary thinkers - from Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. DuBois to Frantz Fanon, Angela Davis and Naomi Zack.ReviewStrongly recommended for all library collections....*Choice*What does it mean to be a problem? In the innovative essays of Existentia Africana, Lewis Gordon returns to the exploration both of W.E.B. Dubois question, as well as of the emancipatory tradition of Black existential thought....It is an immense and profoundly original undertaking.Sylvia Wynter, author of Do Not Call Us Negroes How Multicultural Textbooks Perpetuate Racism and Professor Emerita, Stanford UniversityIn Existentia Africana, Lewis Gordon is once again at his philosophical best. Continuing from where he left off in Existence in Black, Gordon develops Africana philosophy and critical race theory to a higher level of sophistication and originality that will certainly make him a forceful voice of the next millennium. Indeed, a much needed and truly liberating contribution.Mabogo P. More, University of Durban-Westville, South AfricaGordon once again brings his mastery of existentialist writers such as Frantz Fanon and Sartre to bear on issues confronting black intellectuals..M. Stewart, Austin CollegeThis study gives Africana existential philosophy perhaps its most exhaustive analysis... The author discerns a dominant and pervasive race consciousness in Africana existential thought... Gordon has made a definitive statement of the wealth, validity, and historicity of Africana existential thought.Tunde Adeleke, University of MontanaAbout the AuthorLewis R. Gordon is Professor of Afro-American Studies, Modern Culture and Media, and Contemporary Religious Thought at Brown University. He is author of Fanon and the Crisis of European Man (1995) and editor of Existence in Black An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy (1996), both published by Routledge.

Author: Z. David Zuwiyya File Type: pdf Never before has there appeared in English such a collection of essays concerning Alexander the Greats legacy in world literature. From Greek and Latin works of the Classical Period through Medieval texts in Syriac, Persian, Coptic, Arabic, Ethiopic and Hebrew, as well the European languages, the fourteen chapters cover the gamut of Alexander literary studies as compiled by some of the foremost scholars in each field, bringing the reader up-to-date on everything Alexander. These experts share their results after years of investigation in the field, and, in doing so, point the reader toward the essence of each of the myriad of Alexander romances, while at the same time including copious notes and bibliography to prepare the reader for his or her own Alexander journey.Contributors include Richard Stoneman, Saskia DAnitz, Daniel Selden, Josef WiesehAfer, David Ashurst, Laurence Harf-Lancner, Danielle Buschinger, Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala, Roberta Morosini, Maura Lafferty, Peter Kotar, David Zuwiyya