What Does It Mean to Decolonize Philosophy?

Name: What Does It Mean to Decolonize Philosophy?
Start: 2023-02-17T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2023-02-17T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Rehm Library

by McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture

Lecture - Speaker Academic Africana Studies Antiracism Diversity Calendar McFarland Center Philosophy Rehm Library

Fri, Feb 17, 2023

4 PM – 5 PM EST (GMT-5)

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PO Box 210A One College Street, Worcester, MA 01610, United States

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Lewis Gordon, professor and head of the Department of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs, explores five ways in which philosophy, at least as understood in its Euromodern form, is colonized. After showing, through a reflection from an East African philosopher from 4,000 years ago, that philosophy originated as a liberatory project devoted to knowing as a practice of freedom and love in a courageous relationship with reality, he concludes with recommendations for exploring the charge of 21st century philosophy. Cosponsored by the McFarland Center and the Department of Philosophy.

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