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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HAP 107 - Lewis Gordon on F...

09.18.2022

We're joined by a leading Fanon expert to talk about a range of themes in his work: Negritude, psychiatry, and violence.

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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.
10.17.2021 HAP 85 - Liam Kofi Bright on Du Bois‘ Philosophy of Science Guest Liam Kofi Bright discusses Du Bois' ideal of value-free science and the place of science within his wider thought.
10.03.2021 HAP 84 - Live Long and Protest - W.E.B. Du Bois, 1920-1963 Du Bois moves to the left, and revisits and refines older positions during the latter half of his very long life.
09.19.2021 HAP 83 - Songs of the People - Paul Robeson and the Negro Spiritual The career of the multi-talented activist and performer Paul Robeson, and the place of the Negro spiritual in the Harlem Renaissance.
09.05.2021 HAP 82 - The Florida Project - Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston’s interest in Africana folklore feeds into her great novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
07.25.2021 HAP 81 - Making History - Carter G. Woodson Pioneering historian Carter G. Woodson argues for a new approach to education and economic uplift.
07.11.2021 HAP 80 - Scholarly Contributions - African American Professional Philosophers From the latter half of the nineteenth century to the 1970s, African Americans only rarely obtain jobs as philosophy professors but bring distinctive perspectives to the profession.
06.27.2021 HAP 79 - Leonard Harris on Alain Locke Leonard Harris explains how Locke's value theory was the basis for his aesthetics and theories of democracy and race.
06.13.2021 HAP 78 - Freedom Through Art - Alain Locke The aesthetics of Alain Locke and its basis in his theory of value judgments.
05.30.2021 HAP 77 - A Race Capital - The Harlem Renaissance The artistic flowering of the 1920s known as the Harlem Renaissance raises important questions about identity and the purpose of art.
05.16.2021 HAP 76 - Michael Dawson on Garvey and Black Nationalism An interview with Michael Dawson, who explains Marcus Garvey's black nationalism and how this and other political ideologies, like socialism and liberalism, have fared from the time of Garvey down to the present day.
05.02.2021 HAP 75 - Now I Have a Rival - The Two Amy Garveys Marcus Garvey’s two wives, Amy Ashwood Garvey and Amy Jacques Garvey, establish themselves as activists in their own right and bring feminism into the Pan-African movement.
04.18.2021 HAP 74 - Black Star - Marcus Garvey Marcus Garvey leads a powerful movement, inspires racial pride, and feuds with other thinkers like Du Bois.
04.04.2021 HAP 73 - Vanessa Wills on Africana Marxism Vanessa Wills speaks to us about Marx and his Africana legacy, with a special focus on black women Marxists.
03.21.2021 HAP 72 - In A Class of Their Own - Early African American Socialism Around the time of World War One, Hubert Harrison, A. Philip Randolph, and other black socialists argue that racial oppression is caused by capitalism.
03.07.2021 HAP 71 - In Blyden’s Wake - West African Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century West African intellectuals like J.E. Casely-Hayford and Mojola Agbebi build upon Edward Blyden’s ideas at the dawn of the twentieth century.
02.21.2021 HAP 70 - Tommy Curry on the Early 20th Century We chat with Tommy Curry about African-American thought between the turn of the century and the Harlem Renaissance.
02.07.2021 HAP 69 - The Best We Have - The American Negro Academy The ANA unites leading African American scholars of the early 20th century, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Ferris, Archibald Grimké, and Kelly Miller.
01.24.2021 HAP 68 - The Problem of the Color Line - Introducing the Twentieth Century By exploring the work and activities of W.E.B. Du Bois around the turn of the twentieth century, we introduce some of the themes of our coverage of that century.
01.10.2021 HAP 67 - Chike Jeffers on Slavery and Diasporic Philosophy Co-host Chike joins Peter to look back at series 2 and ahead to series 3.
12.27.2020 HAP 66 - Lifting the Veil - Introducing W.E.B. Du Bois W.E.B. Du Bois emerges as a historian, sociologist, and innovative philosophical thinker in the 1890s, and introduces his famous idea of "double consciousness."
12.13.2020 HAP 65 - Separate Fingers, One Hand - Booker T. Washington Was Booker T. Washington’s “accomodationist” approach to race relations a failure to stand up to injustice or a cunning strategy for incremental change?
11.29.2020 HAP 64 - God is a Negro - Henry McNeal Turner A late 19th-century churchman tries to explain how slavery fit into God’s plan, and decide whether the future for African-Americans lies in Africa or America.
11.15.2020 HAP 63 - Brittney Cooper on Black Women Activists Brittney Cooper on activists connected to the National Association of Colored Women, including Fannie Barrier Williams, Mary Church Terrell, and Ida B. Wells.
11.01.2020 HAP 62 - American Barbarism - Ida B. Wells Ida B. Wells, her tireless crusade against lynching, and her analysis of the underlying purpose of racial violence.
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.

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History of Indian and Africana Philosophy episodes:

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

HAP 85 - Liam Kofi Bright on Du Bois‘ Philosophy of Science

HAP 84 - Live Long and Protest - W.E.B. Du Bois, 1920-1963

HAP 83 - Songs of the People - Paul Robeson and the Negro Spiritual

HAP 82 - The Florida Project - Zora Neale Hurston

HAP 81 - Making History - Carter G. Woodson

HAP 80 - Scholarly Contributions - African American Professional Philosophers

HAP 79 - Leonard Harris on Alain Locke

HAP 78 - Freedom Through Art - Alain Locke

HAP 77 - A Race Capital - The Harlem Renaissance

HAP 76 - Michael Dawson on Garvey and Black Nationalism

HAP 75 - Now I Have a Rival - The Two Amy Garveys

HAP 74 - Black Star - Marcus Garvey

HAP 73 - Vanessa Wills on Africana Marxism

HAP 72 - In A Class of Their Own - Early African American Socialism

HAP 71 - In Blyden’s Wake - West African Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century

HAP 70 - Tommy Curry on the Early 20th Century

HAP 69 - The Best We Have - The American Negro Academy

HAP 68 - The Problem of the Color Line - Introducing the Twentieth Century

HAP 67 - Chike Jeffers on Slavery and Diasporic Philosophy

HAP 66 - Lifting the Veil - Introducing W.E.B. Du Bois

HAP 65 - Separate Fingers, One Hand - Booker T. Washington

HAP 64 - God is a Negro - Henry McNeal Turner

HAP 63 - Brittney Cooper on Black Women Activists

HAP 62 - American Barbarism - Ida B. Wells

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