ASRC 3343 - [Africana Philiosophy: Existencialism in Black]

Fall. Next Offered: 2020-2021. 4 credits. Student option grading.

F. Taiwo

The dominant strains in Euro-American philosophy tend either to erase or underplay the participation in and contributions to the constitution of “Western” philosophy of philosophers from the global African world. Additionally, dominant philosophical narratives are notorious for excluding African-inflected discourses from explorations of the perennial problems of philosophy. In this class, we seek to fill this absence by spending time studying the contributions to a distinct philosophical tradition—Existentialism—by thinkers from the global African world.