History of Indian and Africana Philosophy

By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

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Peter Adamson teams up with Jonardon Ganeri and Chike Jeffers to represent the philosophical traditions of India, Africa and the African diaspora. Website: www.historyofphilosophy.net.

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Sylvia Wynter offers a bold and provocative assessment of the role of the humanities in understanding humankind.

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11.19.2023 HAP 135 - Mastering Ceremonies - Sylvia Wynter Sylvia Wynter offers a bold and provocative assessment of the role of the humanities in understanding humankind.
11.05.2023 HAP 134 - The Marx Brothers - Cedric J. Robinson Cedric J. Robinson reflects on the power and limitations of Marxism while charting the past and prospects of black radical thought.
10.22.2023 HAP 133 - John Drabinski on Edouard Glissant The author of an important book on Glissant joins us to talk about his approach to this major Caribbean thinker.
10.16.2023 HAP 132 - French Creolizing - Edouard Glissant and the Creolité Movement Poet, novelist, playwright and philosopher Edouard Glissant, his theory of "creolization", and the Creolists who were influence by him.
09.24.2023 HAP 131 - Mixed Messages - Black British Cultural Studies Stuart Hall pioneers “cultural studies,” offering tools for analysis of films, television, fiction and music that were put to use by followers like Paul Gilroy and Hazel Carby.
09.10.2023 HAP 130 - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on... Himself! The great Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o joins us to speak about his career, his influences, and the power and politics of language.
08.05.2023 HAP 129 - Afrophone Home - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o How one of Kenya's greatest writers came to argue that African literature should be written in African languages.
07.16.2023 HAP 128 - Marginal Comments - bell hooks and Patricia Hill Collins We bring the story of black feminism up to the turn of the century with the incisive works of bell hooks and Patricia Hill Collins.
07.03.2023 HAP 127 - Knowing the Difference - Audre Lorde In poetry and prose, especially her collection "Sister Outsider," Audre Lorde explores ideas of difference, eroticism, and feminist theory.
06.18.2023 HAP 126 - Fugitive for Justice - Angela Davis The eventful life and penetrating philosophy of Angela Davis, an icon of resistance deeply informed by Marxism and influential on black feminist thought.
06.05.2023 HAP 125 - Phenomenal Woman - The Black Women’s Literary Renaissance Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Alice Walker explore the themes of black feminism (or “womanism”) in their fiction. Warning: this episode contains discussion of sexual violence and suicide.
05.21.2023 HAP 124 - Double Jeopardy - Black Feminism 1970s black feminists like Toni Cade Bambara, the Combahee River Collective, and Awa Thiam critique white feminist and black nationalist failures to recognize the unique struggle of the black woman.
04.30.2023 HAP 123 - History Teaches Us - Walter Rodney Another Caribbean thinker, Walter Rodney of Guyana, explores Africana history from a Marxist perspective.
04.16.2023 HAP 122 - A More Human Face - Steve Biko Famous for his killing at the hands of the Apartheid government in South Africa, Steve Biko was also a deep thinker, who introduced the notion of Black Consciousness.
04.02.2023 HAP 121 - No Agreement - Fela Kuti and Wole Soyinka The political and musical revolution of Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat, and the social critique of his cousin, the playwright Wole Soyinka.
03.19.2023 HAP 120 - Redemption Songs - Reggae and Rastafari How the Rastafari movement grew from trends within Africana philosophy, and then passed into global popular culture in the music of Bob Marley and other reggae artists.
03.05.2023 HAP 119 - The Space Race - Afrofuturism Sun Ra and Parliament-Funkadelic return to claim the pyramids, and Octavia Butler uses science fiction to confront the brutal past of slavery.
02.19.2023 HAP 118 - African Survivals - Abdias do Nascimento Abdias do Nascimento, a leader in Brazilian theater and politics, and his theory of Qilombismo.
02.05.2023 HAP 117 - Spear of the Nation - Nelson Mandela and the ANC The career and ideas of Nelson Mandela up to the time of his imprisonment, in the context of the founding of the African National Congress.
01.22.2023 HAP 116 - Olufemi Taiwo and Olufemi Taiwo on Cabral Two scholars of the same name join us to shed further light on Amílcar Cabral.
01.08.2023 HAP 115 - Weapon of Choice - Amílcar Cabral Amílcar Cabral, leader of a revolution against colonialism in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, rethinks culture and Marxist theory as bases for his struggle.
12.25.2022 HAP 114 - Teacher Taught Me - Julius Nyerere The first leader of independent Tanzania grounds his socialist ideas in traditional African values.
12.11.2022 HAP 113 - A Fighting God - Black Theology After Albert Cleage and James Cone propose a liberatory interpretation of Christianity, William R. Jones wonders whether God is a white racist. We also follow Black Theology among “Womanist” authors and in South Africa.
11.27.2022 HAP 112 - Poems That Kill - the Black Arts Movement African American literature of the late 1960s reflects the Black Power movement, in the works of such authors as Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Haki Madhubuti, Larry Neal, and Sonia Sanchez.
11.13.2022 HAP 111 - A Kwanzaa Story - Maulana Karenga The controversial career of the Pan-Africanist philosopher Maulana Karenga, inventor of the holiday Kwanzaa.
10.30.2022 HAP 110 - Politics with Bloodshed - the Black Panthers The philosophical underpinnings of a “vanguard of revolution” led by Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver: the Black Panther Party.
10.16.2022 HAP 109 - Say It Loud - Black Power How the controversial slogan “black power,” used by activists like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown, relates to ideas of militancy, separatism, and the power of language.
10.02.2022 HAP 108 - Or Does It Explode? - Lorraine Hansberry The underestimated radicalism of Lorraine Hansberry, author of the famous play "A Raisin in the Sun".
09.18.2022 HAP 107 - Lewis Gordon on Frantz Fanon We're joined by a leading Fanon expert to talk about a range of themes in his work: Negritude, psychiatry, and violence.
09.04.2022 HAP 106 - Combat Literature - Franz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth Fanon’s incendiary final work explores the violent process of decolonization.
07.24.2022 HAP 105 - Meeting the Gaze - Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks Frantz Fanon combines existentialist philosophy and psychiatry to diagnose the condition of the colonialized target of racism.
07.10.2022 HAP 104 - In Unity Lies Strength - Kwame Nkrumah The first leader of independent Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, writes against neocolonialism and in favor of socialism and Pan-Africanism.
06.26.2022 HAP 103 - A Federal Case - Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo Two Nigerian activists lead the struggle for independence, and clash over the competing values of national unity and ethnic diversity.
06.12.2022 HAP 102 - From Cuba with Love - Juan Rene Betancourt The Cuban activist and author Juan Rene Betancourt urges racial solidarity and reckons with the revolution under Castro and the island’s turn towards Communism.
05.29.2022 HAP 101 - Crossing Paths - the Last Years of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr After 1963, the views of Malcolm X and MLK came closer together, on topics including internationalism, political engagement, and economics.
05.15.2022 HAP 100 - Chike Jeffers on the Early Twentieth Century Chike joins Peter to look back at our coverage of Africana philosophy in the first half of the 20th century.
05.01.2022 HAP 99 - American Nightmare - Malcolm X The life and career of Malcolm X up to 1963, with a focus on his separatist black nationalism and his critique of non-violent protest.
04.17.2022 HAP 98 - Meena Krishnamurthy on Martin Luther King Jr An interview about the role of the emotions, including anger and feelings of dignity, with MLK expert Meena Krishnamurthy.
04.03.2022 HAP 97 - American Dream - Martin Luther King Jr. The story of Martin Luther King Jr. up to 1963, focusing on the development of his philosophy of nonviolence.
03.20.2022 HAP 96 - A Lover’s War - James Baldwin In "The Fire Next Time" and other writings, the essayist and novelist James Baldwin seeks to dispel the illusions surrounding racial and sexual difference.
03.06.2022 HAP 95 - Black and Blue - Ralph Ellison Ralph Ellison provides a new metaphor for the experience of racism in his Invisible Man and tackles topics of art and identity in his essays.
02.20.2022 HAP 94 - How Did You Happen? - Richard Wright Famous for his incendiary novel Native Son, Richard Wright responds in his multifaceted writings to sociology, communism, colonialism, and existentialism.
02.06.2022 HAP 93 - Carole Boyce Davies on Claudia Jones Interview guest Carole Boyce Davies joins us to talk about the radical ideas of Claudia Jones.
01.23.2022 HAP 92 - Half the World - Claudia Jones Claudia Jones argues that Communism provides the remedy for racism and imperialism.
01.09.2022 HAP 91 - Massa Day Done - Oliver Cox and Eric Williams Two Trinidadian political thinkers: sociologist Oliver Cox analyzes the nature of racial prejudice, and historian Eric Williams connects capitalism to slavery.
12.26.2021 HAP 90 - Move Fast and Break Things - C.L.R. James The Trinidadian historian and cultural critic C.L.R. James applies Marxist analysis to the Haitian Revolution, American cinema, and Shakespeare.
12.12.2021 HAP 89 - Separate but Unequal - E. Franklin Frazier Sociologist E. Franklin Frazier critiques the Harlem Renaissance and the “black bourgeoisie” for failing to embrace values that will empower black Americans.
11.28.2021 HAP 88 - The Surreal Deal - Aimé and Suzanne Césaire Negritude thinkers Aimé and Suzanne Césaire embrace surrealism and reflect on the relationships between poetry, knowledge, and identity.
11.14.2021 HAP 87 - Call It Intuition - Leopold Senghor Leopold Senghor compares different ways of knowing while developing his theory of Negritude and combining the roles of poet and politician.
10.31.2021 HAP 86 - French Connection - The Negritude Movement Our first look at the emergence of the Negritude movement in Paris in the 1930s, with a focus on the early leadership of the Nardal sisters and Leon Damas.

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History of Indian and Africana Philosophy episodes:

HAP 135 - Mastering Ceremonies - Sylvia Wynter

HAP 134 - The Marx Brothers - Cedric J. Robinson

HAP 133 - John Drabinski on Edouard Glissant

HAP 132 - French Creolizing - Edouard Glissant and the Creolité Movement

HAP 131 - Mixed Messages - Black British Cultural Studies

HAP 130 - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on... Himself!

HAP 129 - Afrophone Home - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

HAP 128 - Marginal Comments - bell hooks and Patricia Hill Collins

HAP 127 - Knowing the Difference - Audre Lorde

HAP 126 - Fugitive for Justice - Angela Davis

HAP 125 - Phenomenal Woman - The Black Women’s Literary Renaissance

HAP 124 - Double Jeopardy - Black Feminism

HAP 123 - History Teaches Us - Walter Rodney

HAP 122 - A More Human Face - Steve Biko

HAP 121 - No Agreement - Fela Kuti and Wole Soyinka

HAP 120 - Redemption Songs - Reggae and Rastafari

HAP 119 - The Space Race - Afrofuturism

HAP 118 - African Survivals - Abdias do Nascimento

HAP 117 - Spear of the Nation - Nelson Mandela and the ANC

HAP 116 - Olufemi Taiwo and Olufemi Taiwo on Cabral

HAP 115 - Weapon of Choice - Amílcar Cabral

HAP 114 - Teacher Taught Me - Julius Nyerere

HAP 113 - A Fighting God - Black Theology

HAP 112 - Poems That Kill - the Black Arts Movement

HAP 111 - A Kwanzaa Story - Maulana Karenga

HAP 110 - Politics with Bloodshed - the Black Panthers

HAP 109 - Say It Loud - Black Power

HAP 108 - Or Does It Explode? - Lorraine Hansberry

HAP 107 - Lewis Gordon on Frantz Fanon

HAP 106 - Combat Literature - Franz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth

HAP 105 - Meeting the Gaze - Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks

HAP 104 - In Unity Lies Strength - Kwame Nkrumah

HAP 103 - A Federal Case - Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo

HAP 102 - From Cuba with Love - Juan Rene Betancourt

HAP 101 - Crossing Paths - the Last Years of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr

HAP 100 - Chike Jeffers on the Early Twentieth Century

HAP 99 - American Nightmare - Malcolm X

HAP 98 - Meena Krishnamurthy on Martin Luther King Jr

HAP 97 - American Dream - Martin Luther King Jr.

HAP 96 - A Lover’s War - James Baldwin

HAP 95 - Black and Blue - Ralph Ellison

HAP 94 - How Did You Happen? - Richard Wright

HAP 93 - Carole Boyce Davies on Claudia Jones

HAP 92 - Half the World - Claudia Jones

HAP 91 - Massa Day Done - Oliver Cox and Eric Williams

HAP 90 - Move Fast and Break Things - C.L.R. James

HAP 89 - Separate but Unequal - E. Franklin Frazier

HAP 88 - The Surreal Deal - Aimé and Suzanne Césaire

HAP 87 - Call It Intuition - Leopold Senghor

HAP 86 - French Connection - The Negritude Movement