PHL 256 - Africana Philosophy

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR (students beginning prior to Fall 2024): Meets general academic requirement HU and DE.
Meets Explore Core requirement (students beginning Fall 2024 and later): RP
Africana Philosophy refers to the thoughts and ideas produced by African and African-descended groups—which includes Afro-Latinos, African-Americans, and Luso-Africans, among others—under the disordered conditions of modernity. Due to these struggles, three important themes have come to structure Africana philosophy: freedom (what is “Freedom” given that it can be consistent with institutional slavery and colonialism?), philosophical anthropology (what is “Humanity,” or what does it mean to be human, if this term has not been extended universally?), and meta-critiques of reason (what is “Reason” given that it can function as a tool of oppression?).