REVISITING HUMANITY’S ROOTS:  ESTABLISHING AFRICANA PHILOSOPHY’S METAEPISTEMOLOGICAL AND METAPHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS

LaRose T Parris

doi:10.20873/uft.2179-3948.2018v9n1p92

REVISITING HUMANITY’S ROOTS: ESTABLISHING AFRICANA PHILOSOPHY’S METAEPISTEMOLOGICAL AND METAPHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS

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LaRose T Parris LaGuardia Community College/CUNY

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https://doi.org/10.20873/uft.2179-3948.2018v9n1p92

Resumen

This essay underscores the epistemological import of Lewis R. Gordon’s groundbreaking text, An Introduction to Africana Philosophy. The author utilizes a transdisciplinary/creolized method of inquiry to highlight the centrality of Africana philosophy to world history, philosophy, the social sciences, and the history of ideas.

Keywords: Euro-modernity; liberation; reason; theodicy; transdisciplinary.

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LaRose T Parris, LaGuardia Community College/CUNY

Born in Jamaica, West Indies and raised in New York, LaRose T. Parris is Associate Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY where she teaches courses in African American Literature, Contemporary Black Fiction, Composition, and Basic Writing. Her first book, Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature (2015), published by the University of Virginia Press, was awarded the Nicolás Guillén Prize for Outstanding Book in Philosophical Literature by the Caribbean Philosophical Association in 2016. Her fiction and criticism have also appeared in Callaloo and the Journal of Pan African Studies. In addition to teaching at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY, Dr. Parris has also taught classes in writing and literature at New School University, New York Institute of Technology, and City College/CUNY.

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2018-07-19

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Parris, L. T. (2018). REVISITING HUMANITY’S ROOTS: ESTABLISHING AFRICANA PHILOSOPHY’S METAEPISTEMOLOGICAL AND METAPHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS. EntreLetras, 9(1), 92–120. https://doi.org/10.20873/uft.2179-3948.2018v9n1p92

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Vol. 9 Núm. 1 (2018): EDIÇÃO ESPECIAL: A PRODUÇÃO INTELECTUAL DE LEWIS RICARDO GORDON

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