Charles Mills’The Racial Contract at 25: Reconsiderations.Lucius T. Outlaw -2024 -Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 27 (1):62-77.detailsRecosiderations of Charles Mills’ The Racial Contract a quarter-century after its initial publication and my first reading trouble previous assessments as my reengagement with the text brings to the fore several items of Mills’ authorial and critical agendas that are not easily reconciled, in the text or by my still sympathic reading.
Critical Social Theory in the Interests of Black Folks.Lucius T. Outlaw -2005 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.detailsExamining the situations of African Americans in the U.S.A., Lucius Outlaw's essays illustrate over twenty years of work dedicated to articulating a 'critical theory of society' that would account for issues and limiting-factors affecting African-descended peoples in the U.S. Outlaw envisions a democratic order that is not built upon racist projections of the past, but instead seeks a transformative social theory that would help create a truly democratic social order.
Africana Philosophy: Origins and Prospects.Lucius T. Outlaw -2004 - In Kwasi Wiredu,A Companion to African Philosophy. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 90–98.detailsThis chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Giving Primacy to Sociocultural Settings Giving Primacy to the Historical and Cultural Conclusion.
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Philosophy in Multiple Voices.Lewis R. Gordon,Jorge J. E. Gracia,Randall Halle,David Haekwon Kim,Sarah Lucia Hoagland,Lucius T. Outlaw,Nancy Tuana &Dale Turner -2007 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.detailsThe scope of Philosophy in Multiple Voices provides the reader with eight philosophical streams of thought-African-American, Afro-Caribbean, Asian-American, Feminist, Latin-American, Lesbian, Native-American and Queer-that introduce readers to alternative, complex philosophical questions concerning gendered, sexed, racial and ethnic identities, canon formation, and meta-philosophy. The overriding theme of the text is that philosophy is pluralistic in voice, rich in diversity, and ought to valorize democratic intellectual spaces of philosophical engagement.
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"Critical Social Theory"--Then and Now.Lucius T. Outlaw -2013 -Radical Philosophy Review 16 (1):223-235.detailsThe essay is a reflective reconstruction of encounters with persons, writings, and discursive communities involved with “critical social theory” across a decades-long quest for a comprehensive synchronic and diachronic understanding of significant aspects of the social whole of the United States of America, in particular, which understanding was to be the resource for guiding efforts in “emancipatory social transformation”: the overcoming of impediments to the enjoyment by Black people of flourishing lives without invidious racial discrimination and economic exploitation.
On Tommy Curry’s “On Derelict and Method”.Lucius T. Outlaw -2011 -Radical Philosophy Review 14 (2):171-173.detailsAfrican-American/Africana philosophy has made a name for itself as a critical perspective on the inadequacies of European philosophical thought. While this polemical mode has certainly contributed to the questioning of and debates over the universalism of white philosophy, it has nonetheless left Africana philosophy dependent on these criticisms to justify its existence as “philosophical.” This practice has the effect of not only distracting Black philosophers from understanding the thought of their ancestors, but formulates the practice of Africana philosophy as “racial (...) therapy” for whites. By making the goal of Africana philosophy the transformation of the white racist to the white non-racist, Africana philosophy takes up a decidedly political (integrationist) agenda. Making this agenda the guiding ethos of Africana philosophical praxis censors both the Africana thinkers available to study and the interpretation of the figures deemed “fit” for study. Thus I conclude a culturalogic approach is the best way to delineate between the political and methodological in Africana philosophy. (shrink)