History of Indian and Africana Philosophy

By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

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Peter Adamson and Jonardon Ganeri (Professors of Philosophy at LMU Munich and NYU) present the philosophical traditions of India. Website: www.historyofphilosophy.net.

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10.18.2020 HAP 61 - When and Where I Enter - Anna Julia Cooper Anna Julia Cooper’s "A Voice from the South", an unprecedented contribution to black feminist theory.
10.04.2020 HAP 60 - Though Late, It Is Liberty- Abolitionism in Brazil Abolitionists Luiz Gama and Joaquim Nabuco, and the great novelist Machado de Assis, react to the injustices of slaveholding in Brazil.
09.20.2020 HAP 59 - Frowning at Froudacious Fabrications - J.J. Thomas and F.A. Durham John Jacob Thomas argues for self-government in the English colonies of the Caribbean but his fellow Trinidadian Frederick Alexander Durham recommends repatriation to Africa instead.
09.06.2020 HAP 58 - A Common Circle - Anténor Firmin Haitian anthropologist Anténor Firmin debunks racist pseudo-science and argues that inequalities among humans are caused by social, not biological, factors.
07.19.2020 HAP 57 - Race First, Then Party - T. Thomas Fortune T. Thomas Fortune uses newspaper editorials to put forth a theory of civil rights and set out a plan of political action for protecting them.
07.05.2020 HAP 56 - African Personality - Edward Blyden Edward Blyden gains appreciation for Islam in West Africa and gradually moves from political nationalism to cultural nationalism.
06.21.2020 HAP 55 - Planting the Seeds - James Africanus Beale Horton Africanus Horton looks toward a future of self-government for West Africa beyond slavery and colonialism.
06.07.2020 HAP 54 - Wilson Moses on the Roots of Black Nationalism Wilson Moses speaks to us about his research into early black notionalism, as represented by Crummell, Douglass, and others.
05.24.2020 HAP 53 - Pilgrim’s Progress - Alexander Crummell Alexander Crummell moves from pan-Africanism to reform of African American culture, identifying progressive “civilization” as a means of liberation.
05.10.2020 HAP 52 - Great White North - Emigration to Canada Mary Ann Shadd and Samuel Ringgold Ward reflect on what Canada can offer African Americans, differing on the problem of racism.
04.26.2020 HAP 51 - I Read Men and Nations - Sojourner Truth and Frances Harper The moral crusades of Sojourner Truth and Frances Harper, activists against racial and gender oppression.
04.12.2020 HAP 50 - Nation Within a Nation - Martin Delany He is called a “father of black nationalism,” but Martin Delany also promoted integration in American society. Can the apparent tension be resolved?
03.29.2020 HAP 49 - Let Your Motto Be Resistance - Henry Highland Garnet Henry Highland Garnet encourages, or actually demands, that enslaved Americans throw off their chains and debates Douglass over how best to resist slavery.
03.15.2020 HAP 48 - Happy Holidays - Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass In two speeches marking holidays, Frederick Douglass champions the idea of world citizenship, the power of appeals to conscience to bring change, and the role of violence.
03.01.2020 HAP 47 - Written by Himself - the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass' journey from slave to leading figure of 19th century American thought.
02.16.2020 HAP 46 - Melvin Rogers on 19th Century Political Thought Melvin Rogers joins us to discuss Hosea Walker, Maria Stewart, and Hosea Easton.
02.02.2020 HAP 45 - Unnatural Causes - Hosea Easton’s Treatise Hosea Easton’s Treatise provides an overlooked but fascinating theory of race and racism.
01.19.2020 HAP 44 - Religion and Pure Principles - Maria W. Stewart Maria W. Stewart’s public addresses bring the concerns of African American women into the struggle against racial prejudice.
01.05.2020 HAP 43 - Kill or Be Killed - David Walker’s Appeal David Walker defends violent resistance and encourages self-improvement in his incendiary and influential Appeal.
12.22.2019 HAP 42 - James Sidbury on African Identity An interview with James Sidbury about the emergence of a self-conscious African identity in the diaspora.
12.08.2019 HAP 41 - Should I Stay or Should I Go? - The Colonization Controversy Questions of political autonomy and group identity in the emigration movement led by Paul Cuffe, Daniel Coker, John Russwurm and others.
11.24.2019 HAP 40 - American Africans - Early Black Institutions in the US Building black institutions in early American history, with Prince Hall and the Masons in Boston, and Richard Allen and the Methodists in Philadelphia.
11.10.2019 HAP 39 - Doris Garraway on the Haitian Revolution An interview with Doris Garraway on the background, intellectual basis, and legacy of the Haitian Revolution.
10.27.2019 HAP 38 - My Haitian Pen - Baron de Vastey The Baron de Vastey unveils the horror of colonialism as a system and defends the monarchy of King Christophe in the tense early years of Haiti’s independence.
10.13.2019 HAP 37 - Liberty, Equality, Humanity - The Haitian Revolution In an age of revolutions and revolutionary ideas, the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804 stands out as the most radical of them all.
09.29.2019 HAP 36 - Sons of Africa - Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano advance the goals of the abolitionist movement through a groundbreaking political treatise and an influential autobiography.
09.15.2019 HAP 35 - Letters from the Heart - Ignatius Sancho and Benjamin Banneker Ignatius Sancho and Benjamin Banneker make their mark on the history of Africana thought through letters that reflect on the power of sentiment.
09.01.2019 HAP 34 - New England Patriot - Lemuel Haynes Preacher and Revolutionary War soldier Lemuel Haynes argues that the principles of the American Revolution demand the abolition of slavery.
07.21.2019 HAP 33 - Young, Gifted, and Black - Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley astonishes colonial Americans with her exquisite and precocious poetry and reflects on the liberating power of the imagination.
07.07.2019 HAP 32 - Talking Book - Early Africana Writing in English 18th century black authors touch on philosophical themes in autobiographical narratives, poetry, and other literary genres.
06.23.2019 HAP 31 - Justin Smith on Amo and Race in Early Modern Philosophy Justin E.H. Smith joins us to discuss Anton Wilhelm Amo against the background of ideas about race in early modern philosophy, including Leibniz.
06.09.2019 HAP 30 - Dualist Personality - Anton Wilhelm Amo Anton Wilhelm Amo, brought to Germany from his native Ghana, defends a rigorous dualism of mind and body. Was this philosophy connected to his African origins?
05.26.2019 HAP 29 - Out of Africa - Slavery and the Diaspora An introduction to Africana philosophical thought as it emerged from the modern experience of slavery and colonization by Europeans.
05.12.2019 HAP 28 - Chike Jeffers on Precolonial African Philosophy Co-host Chike Jeffers and Peter chat about the themes and questions raised by the podcast so far.
04.28.2019 HAP 27 - Beyond the Reaction - The Continuing Relevance of Precolonial Traditions As the twentieth century draws to a close, the critique of ethnophilosophy gives way to approaches that continue to privilege the study of precolonial traditions.
04.14.2019 HAP 26 - Kai Kresse on the Anthropology of Philosophy An interview with Kai Kresse who discusses his efforts to do "anthropology of philosophy" on the Swahili Coast.
03.31.2019 HAP 25 - Wise Guys - Sage Philosophy Henry Odera Oruka’s new method for exploring philosophy in Africa, based on interviews with wise individuals.
03.17.2019 HAP 24 - Professionally Speaking - The Reaction Against Ethnophilosophy Paulin Hountondji and other African philosophers criticize ethnophilosophy and advocate a universalist approach.
03.03.2019 HAP 23 - Nkiru Nzegwu on Gender in African Tradition An interview with Nkiru Nzegwu on matriarchy and gender fluidity in Africa.
02.17.2019 HAP 22 - Women Have no Tribe - Gender in African Tradition What archeology and ethnography tell us about the diverse and often ambiguous roles of men and women in traditional African societies.
02.03.2019 HAP 21 - The Doctor Will See You Now - Divination, Witchcraft, and Knowledge Special forms of knowledge and the explanation of misfortunes in African tradition.
01.20.2019 HAP 20 - I Am Because We Are - Communalism in African Ethics and Politics Emphasis on the value of community as a major theme in African philosophy.
01.06.2019 HAP 19 - Behind the Mask - African Philosophy of the Person Traditional African ideas about personhood, which challenge assumptions about the relation between mind and body, self and other.
12.23.2018 HAP 18 - One to Rule Them All - God in African Philosophy Is traditional African religion in some sense monotheist, despite the worship of many divinities?
12.09.2018 HAP 17 - Event Horizon - African Philosophy of Time John Mbiti’s influential and controversial claim that traditional Africans experience time as having “a long past, a present, and virtually no future.”
11.25.2018 HAP 16 - Samuel Imbo on Okot p'Bitek and Oral Traditions A conversation with Sam Imbo on approaching oral traditions as philosophy and the Ugandan thinker and poet Okot p'Bitek.
11.11.2018 HAP 15 - Heard it Through the Grapevine - Oral Philosophy in Africa An introduction to the “ethnophilosophy” approach inaugurated by Placide Tempels, its promises and potential pitfalls.
10.28.2018 HAP 14 - Souleymane Bachir Diagne on Islam in Africa Peter speaks to Souleymane Bachir Diagne about Islamic scholars in West Africa.
10.14.2018 HAP 13 - Renewing the Faith - the Sokoto Caliphate Uthman Dan Fodio and his family were scholars, poets, and warriors whose jihad in 19th century Nigeria created the Sokoto Caliphate.
09.30.2018 HAP 12 - From Here to Timbuktu - Subsaharan Islamic Philosophy The spread of Islamic scholarship in subsaharan Africa, focusing on intellectuals of the Songhay empire around the Niger River in the 15th-17th centuries.

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History of Indian and Africana Philosophy episodes:

HAP 61 - When and Where I Enter - Anna Julia Cooper

HAP 60 - Though Late, It Is Liberty- Abolitionism in Brazil

HAP 59 - Frowning at Froudacious Fabrications - J.J. Thomas and F.A. Durham

HAP 58 - A Common Circle - Anténor Firmin

HAP 57 - Race First, Then Party - T. Thomas Fortune

HAP 56 - African Personality - Edward Blyden

HAP 55 - Planting the Seeds - James Africanus Beale Horton

HAP 54 - Wilson Moses on the Roots of Black Nationalism

HAP 53 - Pilgrim’s Progress - Alexander Crummell

HAP 52 - Great White North - Emigration to Canada

HAP 51 - I Read Men and Nations - Sojourner Truth and Frances Harper

HAP 50 - Nation Within a Nation - Martin Delany

HAP 49 - Let Your Motto Be Resistance - Henry Highland Garnet

HAP 48 - Happy Holidays - Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass

HAP 47 - Written by Himself - the Life of Frederick Douglass

HAP 46 - Melvin Rogers on 19th Century Political Thought

HAP 45 - Unnatural Causes - Hosea Easton’s Treatise

HAP 44 - Religion and Pure Principles - Maria W. Stewart

HAP 43 - Kill or Be Killed - David Walker’s Appeal

HAP 42 - James Sidbury on African Identity

HAP 41 - Should I Stay or Should I Go? - The Colonization Controversy

HAP 40 - American Africans - Early Black Institutions in the US

HAP 39 - Doris Garraway on the Haitian Revolution

HAP 38 - My Haitian Pen - Baron de Vastey

HAP 37 - Liberty, Equality, Humanity - The Haitian Revolution

HAP 36 - Sons of Africa - Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano

HAP 35 - Letters from the Heart - Ignatius Sancho and Benjamin Banneker

HAP 34 - New England Patriot - Lemuel Haynes

HAP 33 - Young, Gifted, and Black - Phillis Wheatley

HAP 32 - Talking Book - Early Africana Writing in English

HAP 31 - Justin Smith on Amo and Race in Early Modern Philosophy

HAP 30 - Dualist Personality - Anton Wilhelm Amo

HAP 29 - Out of Africa - Slavery and the Diaspora

HAP 28 - Chike Jeffers on Precolonial African Philosophy

HAP 27 - Beyond the Reaction - The Continuing Relevance of Precolonial Traditions

HAP 26 - Kai Kresse on the Anthropology of Philosophy

HAP 25 - Wise Guys - Sage Philosophy

HAP 24 - Professionally Speaking - The Reaction Against Ethnophilosophy

HAP 23 - Nkiru Nzegwu on Gender in African Tradition

HAP 22 - Women Have no Tribe - Gender in African Tradition

HAP 21 - The Doctor Will See You Now - Divination, Witchcraft, and Knowledge

HAP 20 - I Am Because We Are - Communalism in African Ethics and Politics

HAP 19 - Behind the Mask - African Philosophy of the Person

HAP 18 - One to Rule Them All - God in African Philosophy

HAP 17 - Event Horizon - African Philosophy of Time

HAP 16 - Samuel Imbo on Okot p'Bitek and Oral Traditions

HAP 15 - Heard it Through the Grapevine - Oral Philosophy in Africa

HAP 14 - Souleymane Bachir Diagne on Islam in Africa

HAP 13 - Renewing the Faith - the Sokoto Caliphate

HAP 12 - From Here to Timbuktu - Subsaharan Islamic Philosophy

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