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A seminar by Professor Lewis R. Gordon from the University of Connecticut.
This seminar examines two reductionist problems: the first is a critique of Nietzsche’s notion of social decay, which culminates in a set of misogynistic conclusions that need not have been the outcome.The second, in similar kind, is about hegemonic and reductionistic discourses on Capitalism and Socialism that poses, as he has argued in Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization(Routledge, 2021) and Fear of Black Consciousness(Penguin, 2022), and his other writings, a series of false dilemmas through misrepresenting the concept of markets, which leads to a disguised role of ‘business’.
Professor Lewis R. Gordon is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Global Affairs and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization (Routledge, 2021);Fear of Black Consciousness(Penguin, 2022); Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge: Writing of Lewis R. Gordon, edited by Rozena Maart and Sayan Dey (Bloomsbury, 2023).
- Speaker
- Lewis R. Gordon
- Venue
- Court Room, University Office
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