History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
Education Podcasts
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.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Education Podcasts
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Episodes
HPC 04. Open Season: the Historical Context
4/21/2024
The historical context of classical Chinese philosophy, and how ancient Chinese historical works themselves became works of philosophy.
Duration:00:24:06
HPC 03. Karyn Lai on Classical Chinese Philosophy
4/7/2024
Co-host Karyn introduces herself to the listeners and talks about the challenges of tackling classical Chinese philosophical texts.
Duration:00:36:16
HPC 02. The Only Constant: Change and the "Yi Jing"
3/24/2024
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.
Duration:00:26:29
HPC 01. Journey of a Thousand Li: Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
3/9/2024
Introducing Chinese philosophy through the concept of "dao," a fundamental word in classical Chinese philosophy, with a range of meanings across its different traditions.
Duration:00:20:16
HAP 142 - Final Chat with Chike Jeffers
2/24/2024
How Africana philosophy looked to a young Chike Jeffers, coming into the field in the early 21st century.
Duration:00:51:12
HAP 141 - Job Openings - the Rise of Africana Professional Philosophy
2/11/2024
The key events and figures in philosophy as an academic discipline, in both Africa and the diaspora.
Duration:00:38:24
HAP 140 - Cornel West on Himself
1/27/2024
Cornel West joins us to look back on the development of his thought and the many authors who have inspired him.
Duration:00:46:28
HAP 139 - A Love Supreme - Cornel West
1/15/2024
An introduction to Cornel West, focusing on his early essay “Philosophy and the Afro-American Experience.”
Duration:00:33:22
HAP 138 - Taking it Out of Neutral - Critical Race Theory
12/30/2023
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.
Duration:00:27:38
HAP 137 - Asante Sana - Molefi Asante’s Afrocentricity
12/17/2023
What inspired Asante's controversial philosophy of Afrocentricity, and its relationship to religion, nationalism, and feminism.
Duration:00:37:00
HAP 136 - Civilization Reclaimed - African-Centered Thought
12/11/2023
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.
Duration:00:34:21
HAP 135 - Mastering Ceremonies - Sylvia Wynter
11/19/2023
Sylvia Wynter offers a bold and provocative assessment of the role of the humanities in understanding humankind.
Duration:00:28:26
HAP 134 - The Marx Brothers - Cedric J. Robinson
11/5/2023
Cedric J. Robinson reflects on the power and limitations of Marxism while charting the past and prospects of black radical thought.
Duration:00:23:37
HAP 133 - John Drabinski on Edouard Glissant
10/22/2023
The author of an important book on Glissant joins us to talk about his approach to this major Caribbean thinker.
Duration:00:41:58
HAP 132 - French Creolizing - Edouard Glissant and the Creolité Movement
10/16/2023
Poet, novelist, playwright and philosopher Edouard Glissant, his theory of "creolization", and the Creolists who were influence by him.
Duration:00:33:43
HAP 131 - Mixed Messages - Black British Cultural Studies
9/24/2023
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.
Duration:00:33:45
HAP 130 - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on... Himself!
9/10/2023
The great Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o joins us to speak about his career, his influences, and the power and politics of language.
Duration:00:36:10
HAP 129 - Afrophone Home - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
8/5/2023
How one of Kenya's greatest writers came to argue that African literature should be written in African languages.
Duration:00:42:04
HAP 128 - Marginal Comments - bell hooks and Patricia Hill Collins
7/16/2023
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.
Duration:00:19:24
HAP 127 - Knowing the Difference - Audre Lorde
7/3/2023
In poetry and prose, especially her collection "Sister Outsider," Audre Lorde explores ideas of difference, eroticism, and feminist theory.
Duration:00:37:47