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This study examines the subject of Africana philosophy of existence. Drawing upon resources in Africana philosophy and literature, the contributors explore some of the central themes of existentialism as posed by the context of what Franz Fanon has identified as ""the lived-experience of the black"". Contributors are: Ernest Allen Jr, Robert Birt, Bernard Boxill, George Carew, Bobby Dixon, G.M. James Gonzales, Lewis R. Gordon, Leonard Harris, Floyd Hayes III, Paget Henry, Patricia Huntington, Joy Ann James, Clarence Shole Johnson, Bill E. Lawson, Howard McGary, Roy D. Morrison, William Preston, Jean-Paul Sartre, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Gary Schwartz, Robert Westley, and Naomi Zack.

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... this is a useful and wide-ranging book that contributes to various aspects of the discussion of race. There is no other anthology like this... It is path-breaking in its demonstration that existentialism can be applied, historicized, concretized, and above all, that philosophy of existence is alive and well with a future as well as a past. <br>- Teaching Philosophy <br> Lewis Gordon has edited an impressive anthology within a specialized area of philosophy ... [T]his is a great resource. <br>- Catholic Library World <br>

... this is a useful and wide-ranging book that contributes to various aspects of the discussion of race. There is no other anthology like this... It is path-breaking in its demonstration that existentialism can be applied, historicized, concretized, and above all, that philosophy of existence is alive and well with a future as well as a past. - Teaching Philosophy Lewis Gordon has edited an impressive anthology within a specialized area of philosophy ... [T]his is a great resource. - Catholic Library World

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Lewis R. Gordon teaches Africana philosophy and contemporary religious thought at Brown University.

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