Philosophizing the Americas establishes the field of inter-American philosophy. Bringing together contributors who work in Africana Philosophy, Afro-Caribbean philosophy, Latin American philosophy, Afro-Latin philosophy, decolonial theory, and African American philosophy, the volume examines the full range of traditions that have, separately and in conversation with each other, worked through how philosophy in both establishes itself in the Americas and engages with the world from which it emerges.
The book traces a range of questions, from the history of philosophy in the Americas to philosophical questions of race, feminism, racial eliminativism, creolization, epistemology, coloniality, aesthetics, and literature. The essays place an impressive range of philosophical traditions and figures into dialogue with one another: some familiar, such as Jose Marti, Sylvia Wynter, Martin R. Delany, Jose Vasconcelos, Alain Locke, as well as such less familiar thinkers as Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Hilda Hilst, and George Lamming. In each chapter, the contributors find fascinating and productive matrices of tension or convergence in works throughout the Americas. The result is an original and important contribution to knowledge that introduces readers from various disciplines to unfamiliar yet compelling ideas and considers familiar texts from novel and prescient perspectives. Philosophizing the Americas stands alone as a representation of current scholarly debates in the field of inter-American philosophy.
Contributors: Stephanie Rivera Berruz, Jacoby Adeshei Carter, Nadia Celis, Tommy J. Curry, Hernando A. Estevez, Daniel Fryer, James B. Haile III, Chike Jeffers, Lee A. McBride III, Michael Monahan, Eliana Diaz Munoz, Adriana Novoa, Susana Nuccetelli, Andrea J. Pitts, Dwayne A. Tunstall, and Alejandro A. Vallega
Author Biography:
Jacoby Adeshei Carter (Edited By)
Jacoby Adeshei Carter is an associate professor of philosophy, and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Howard University. He is the director of the Alain Leroy Locke Society, author of African American Contributions to the Americas’ Cultures: Lectures by Alain Locke and co-editor of Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond and Insurrectionist Ethics: Radical Perspectives on Social Justice. He is also series editor of African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora, published by Palgrave/Macmillan.
Hernando Arturo Estévez (Edited By)
Hernando A. Estévez was educated at DePaul University and Indiana University. He works on Latin American philosophy, political philosophy and continental philosophy. He is currently chair and professor of the Department of Philosophy, Arts and Literature, and former Dean of the School of Philosophy at Universidad de La Salle in Bogotá. Hernando is the editor and contributor of Teaching to Discern: forming connections, decolonizing perspectives (Bogotá: Ediciones UniSalle, 2019).
