Professor Lewis Gordon
Professor Gordon works in the areas of Africana philosophy, philosophy of human and life sciences, phenomenology, philosophy of existence, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and racism, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion. He was Executive Editor of volumes I-V of Radical Philosophy Review: Journal of the Radical Philosophy Association and co-editor of the Routledge book series on Africana thought. He is Ongoing Visiting Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica and is President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2007. 500 pp.
Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, September 2006; Serbian edition - Belgrade: Hedone Publishers, forthcoming 2008. x+173 pp.
A Companion to African American Studies, edited with an introduction by Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, January 2006. xxxv + 668 pp.
Not Only the Master's Tools: African-American Studies in Theory and Practice, edited with an introduction by Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, January 2006. xiii+ 321 pp.
Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought. New York: Routledge, April 2000. xii + 228 pp.
Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age with a foreword by Renée T. White. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, September 1997. xvii+282 pp. Winner of the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America.
Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy, ed. with an introduction by Lewis R. Gordon. New York: Routledge, January 1997. xviii+328 pp.
Fanon: A Critical Reader, ed. with an introduction and translations by Lewis R. Gordon, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Renée T. White, and a foreword by Leonard Harris and Carolyn Johnson, and an afterword by Joy Ann James. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, July 1996. xxi +345 pp.
Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences, New York: Routledge, September 1995. xiii+137 pp.
Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism. Amherst, NY: Humanity/Prometheus Books, 1999. Originally Published in Atlantic Highlands, NJ, by Humanities International Press, January 1995. xiv+222 pp.