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This book is a critical edition of six lectures by Alain Leroy Locke, the intellectual progenitor of the Harlem Renaissance. In them, Locke offers an Inter-American philosophical account of important contributions made by Afrodescendant peoples to the art, literature, and culture of various American societies. Locke offers a prescient vision of the intersection of the three Americas: Latin (South) America, the Caribbean, and North America. The book has two main parts: First, are the lectures, which all relate to the themes of black cultural contributions throughout the Americas, minority representation and marginalization in democratic contexts, the ethics of racial representation, the notion of cultural transformation and transparency, and the ethical issues involved in cross-cultural exchanges. The second portion of the book is a critical interpretive essay that elucidates the Inter-American philosophical significance of the lectures and their relevance to current philosophical discussions

'Insurrectionist Ethics' is the name given to denote the myriad forms of justification for radical social transformation in the interest of freedom for oppressed people. It is a set of advocacy systems that usually aim at liberation for specified populations under siege in a given society. While the identities of these beleaguered groups is always intersectional, one salient criterion of group membership is often chosen to be the rallying point for solidarity. Whether the movement is Black Lives Matter, Gay Pride, or Poor Peoples Campaign, at the nucleus of each is a cry for emancipation. The contributions in this volume put forward bold, forcefully argued, provocative claims that challenge in a fundamental and radical way the presuppositions, values, and beliefs that underwrite the systems and structures that insurrectionist ethics calls into question. The volume begins with a section defining and theorizing what insurrectionist ethics is, and then moves to a section studying insurrectionist ethics across the Americas. Additional sections focus on applications of and correctives to insurrectionist ethics, pragmatism and naturalism, and the past, present, and future of insurrectionist ethics.

Pt. 1. Value -- Moral imperatives for world order / Alain Locke -- Unity through diversity : a Bahá'í principle / Alain Locke -- Culture and the Kalos : inquiry, justice, and value in Locke and Aristotle / Rose Cherubin -- Aesthetic evaluations of realist drama / Erin Kealey -- The axiological turn in early twentieth century American philosophy : Alain Locke and José Vasconcelos on epistemology, value, and the emotions / Grant Silva -- Conundrum of cosmopolitanism and race : the great debate between Alain Locke and William James / Leonard Harris -- Pt. 2. Tolerance -- A functional view of value ultimates / Alain Locke -- A functional peace in this world : Farmer and Locke on the challenges of a truly post-war hope / Greg Moses -- Beyond repressive tolerance : Alain Locke's hermeneutics of democracy and tolerance in conversation with Herbert Marcuse and H.G. Gadamer / Arnold L. Farr -- Multicultural education, metaphysics, and Alain Locke's post-metaphysical alternative / Christopher J. Collins -- Unlikely allies : Nietzsche, Locke, and counter-hegemonic transformation of consciousness / A. Todd Franklin -- Pt. 3. Cosmopolitanism -- World citizenship : mirage or reality? / Alain Locke -- Cosmopolitanism and epideictic rhetoric / Robert Danisch -- What difference does difference make? Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the birth of cultural pluralism / David Weinfeld -- Ethnocentric representations and being human in a multiethnic global world : Alain Locke critique / Chielozona Eze -- Global citizenship through reciprocity : Alain Locke and Barack Obama's pragmatist politics / Terrance MacMullan -- New moral imperatives for world order : Alain Locke on pluralism and relativism / Jacoby Adeshei Carter

Philosophizing the Americas establishes the field of inter-American philosophy. Bringing together contributors who work in Africana Philosophy, Afro-Caribbean philosophy, Latin American philosophy, Afro-Latin philosophy, decolonial theory, and African American philosophy, the volume examines the full range of traditions that have, separately and in conversation with each other, worked through how philosophy in both establishes itself in the Americas and engages with the world from which it emerges.The book traces a range of questions, from the history of philosophy in the Americas to philosophical questions of race, feminism, racial eliminativism, creolization, epistemology, coloniality, aesthetics, and literature. The essays place 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, as well as such less familiar thinkers as Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Hilda Hilst, and George Lamming. 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 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