History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

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

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History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China episodes:

04.21.2024
HPC 04. Open Season: the Historical Context
The historical context of classical Chinese philosophy, and how ancient Chinese historical works themselves became works of philosophy.
04.07.2024
HPC 03. Karyn Lai on Classical Chinese Philosophy
Co-host Karyn introduces herself to the listeners and talks about the challenges of tackling classical Chinese philosophical texts.
03.24.2024
HPC 02. The Only Constant: Change and the "Yi Jing"
Early Chinese philosophers were deeply aware of a world that is constantly changing: we look at how Confucians, Legalists, and Daoists responded to this challenge.
03.10.2024
HPC 01. Journey of a Thousand Li: Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
Introducing Chinese philosophy through the concept of "dao," a fundamental word in classical Chinese philosophy, with a range of meanings across its different traditions.
02.25.2024
HAP 142 - Final Chat with Chike Jeffers
How Africana philosophy looked to a young Chike Jeffers, coming into the field in the early 21st century.
02.11.2024
HAP 141 - Job Openings - the Rise of Africana Professional Philosophy
The key events and figures in philosophy as an academic discipline, in both Africa and the diaspora.
01.28.2024
HAP 140 - Cornel West on Himself
Cornel West joins us to look back on the development of his thought and the many authors who have inspired him.
01.15.2024
HAP 139 - A Love Supreme - Cornel West
An introduction to Cornel West, focusing on his early essay “Philosophy and the Afro-American Experience.”
12.31.2023
HAP 138 - Taking it Out of Neutral - Critical Race Theory
A movement of legal scholars diagnoses the limitations of merely “formal” measures against discrimination, a point they connect to issues like affirmative action, democratic process, and intersectionality.
12.17.2023
HAP 137 - Asante Sana - Molefi Asante’s Afrocentricity
What inspired Asante's controversial philosophy of Afrocentricity, and its relationship to religion, nationalism, and feminism.
12.11.2023
HAP 136 - Civilization Reclaimed - African-Centered Thought
How writers like George G.M. James, John Henrik Clarke, Cheikh Anta Diop, Yosef ben-Jochannan, and Chancellor Williams prepared the way for the Afrocentricity of Molefi Asante and captured the imaginations of hip hop artists and intellectuals like Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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.

What's History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China about?

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History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China episodes:

HPC 04. Open Season: the Historical Context

HPC 03. Karyn Lai on Classical Chinese Philosophy

HPC 02. The Only Constant: Change and the "Yi Jing"

HPC 01. Journey of a Thousand Li: Introduction to Chinese Philosophy

HAP 142 - Final Chat with Chike Jeffers

HAP 141 - Job Openings - the Rise of Africana Professional Philosophy

HAP 140 - Cornel West on Himself

HAP 139 - A Love Supreme - Cornel West

HAP 138 - Taking it Out of Neutral - Critical Race Theory

HAP 137 - Asante Sana - Molefi Asante’s Afrocentricity

HAP 136 - Civilization Reclaimed - African-Centered Thought

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.