Abstract

In this conference Prof. Lewis Gordon will give a critical discussion of recent political thought in light of global events. He will discuss the error of focusing on neoliberalism, leaving neoconservatism and its fascist aspirations overlooked; this will be folowed by a discussion of the problems involved in a leftism locked in reductive models of social justice and anti-statist romanticism with hopes of anarchy.

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Lewis R. Gordon is Professor of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs; European Union Visiting Chair in Philosophy at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France; Core Professor at the Global Center for Advanced Studies; and Honorary Professor at the Unit of the Humanities at Rhodes University (UHURU), South Africa. He also is the drummer for the band ThreeGenerations (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCedXg5Lmzi_RNq172eDLE3g/videos, Spotify, and other music sites). His most recent books are What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (NY: Fordham UP; London: Hurst; Johannesburg: Wits UP, 2015; in Swedish, Vad Fanon Sa, Stockholm: TankeKraft förlag, 2016), La sud prin nord-vest: Reflecţii existenţiale afrodiasporice, trans. Ovidiu Tichindeleanu (Cluj, Romania: IDEA Design & Print, 2016), and, with Fernanda Frizzo Bragato, the forthcoming anthology Geopolitics and Decolonization: Perspectives from the Global South (London, UK: Rowman & Littlefield International). His website is: http://lewisrgordon.com and he is on twitter at: https://twitter.com/lewgord.

Activity within The Doctoral Programme Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship an the research project ALICE