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 José Martí, Sylvia Wynter, Martin R. Delany, José 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.
Table of Content
Introduction : Prolegomena to Inter-American Philosophy
Jacoby Adeshei Carter | 1
PART I –INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY: THEORIZING THE AMERICAS
1 Inter-American Philosophy: Born of Struggle?
Daniel Fryer | 11
2 Bringing Africa to the Americas: The Creolizing of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
Chike Jeffers | 28
PART II –INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF INDEPENDENCE AND STATE FORMATION
3 The 1812 Constitution of Cádiz: From Colonialism to Independence
Hernando A. Estévez | 49
4 Martin Delany and José Martí: Two Thinkers, Two Cubas
Dwayne A. Tunstall | 68
PART III –INTER-AMERICAN HISTORICISM
5 Illuminated in Black: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg’s Revolt against
Colonial Historicization—An Anti-Colonial Reflection on the Philosophy of (Black) History
Tommy J. Curry | 93
6 Chaos in the House of Reason: Positivism in the Americas, 1780–1900
Adriana Novoa | 117
PART IV –CURRENT TRENDS AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
7 Latin American Philosophy Has No Quine, So What?
Susana Nuccetelli | 147
8 Latin American Thought as a Path toward Philosophizing from Radical Exteriority
Alejandro A. Vallega | 162
9 Afro-American Writing: Motifs of Place
James B. Haile, III | 193
PART V –INTER-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF RACE
10 Alain Locke, José Vasconcelos, and José Martí, on Race, Nationality, and Cosmopolitanism
Jacoby Adeshei Carter | 235
11 Reason, Race, and the Human Project: Sylvia Winter,
Sociogenesis, and Philosophy in the Americas
Michael Monahan | 261
12 Race, Multiplicity, and Impure Coalitions of Resistance
Lee A. Mc Bride, III | 284
PART VI –INTER-AMERICAN FEMINISM
13 La Negra’s Provocation: Corporeal Consciousness in
Nuestra Señora de la Noche by Mayra Santos-Febres
Nadia V. Celis Salgado | 307
14 Decolonial Feminisms and Indigenous Women’s
Resistance to Neoliberalism: Lessons from Abya Yala
Andrea J. Pitts | 326
15 The Menstruating Body Politic: José Martí, Gender, and Sexuality
Stephanie Rivera Berruz | 350
List of Contributors | 367
Index | 371
About the author
Hernando A. Estévez was educated at De Paul 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 Uni Salle, 2019).46,523 Ebooks in this category
