Philosophizing the Americas

Philosophizing the Americas is a collection of sixteen essays that consider an extraordinary range of issues, from the history of philosophy, philosophy of race, feminism, and racial eliminativism, to political philosophy, creolization, epistemology, coloniality, aesthetics, and philosophy of literature. This anthology is not a work in American philosophy, but inter-American philosophy. Philosophizing the Americas introduces a groundbreaking approach to Inter-American philosophy that forges a new methodological approach at the intersections of Africana philosophy, Afro-Caribbean philosophy, Latin American philosophy, Afro-Latin philosophy, decolonial theory, and African American philosophy. By bringing together in each chapter distinct philosophical traditions across the Americas, this book poses theoretical, conceptual, thematic, and philosophical challenges in an attempt to forge an Inter-American philosophical framework. The essays collected here contribute to new knowledge, drawing an impressive range of philosophical traditions and figures into dialogue with one another; some familiar, such as José Martí, Sylvia Wynter, Martin R. Delany, José Vasconcelos, Alain Locke, and others, but some, such as Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Hilda Hilst, and George Lamming, have not been written about extensively by philosophers. In each chapter, the contributors find fascinating and productive matrices of tension or convergence in works throughout the Americas. The result is an original and important contribution to knowledge that introduces readers from various disciplines to several unfamiliar yet compelling ideas and considers familiar texts from novel and prescient perspectives. Philosophizing the Americas stands alone as a representation of current scholarly debates in the field of Inter-American philosophy.