Preface and Acknowledgements / Part I: A Philosophical Autobiography / 1. Introduction by Way of Freedom / 2. Formative Student Years / 3. Philosophy Lecturer / 4. Overseas Experiences / 5. The Returnings / 6. Black (Africana) Philosophy / 7. Philosophy and jazz / 8. Post 'Retirement' / 9. The Frantz Fanon Award / Part II: Essays / 10. Philosophy in South Africa: Before, Under and After Apartheid / 11. Locating Frantz Fanon in (Post) Apartheid South Africa / 12. Gordon on Contingency: A Sartrean Interpretation / 13. Black Solidarity: A Philosophical Defense / 14. Biko: Africana Existentialist Philosopher / Bibliography / Index
Mabogo Percy More is a former professor of philosophy at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and is currently professor of philosophy at the University of Limpopo, South Africa. He is the author of many journal articles and his latest book is Biko: Philosophy, Identity and Liberation (HSRC Press, 2017). He was awarded the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement award by the Caribbean Philosophical Association in 2015.
Looking Through Philosophy in Black is a compelling story of one
man's struggle for philosophy against the odds, willed by the
author's determination to think freedom under the heel of apartheid
South Africa. Buoyed by the Black Consciousness Movement-the author
was a classmate of the murdered student leader Abram Onkgopotse
Tiro-Mabogo Percy More became a philosopher. Recognized today as
one of the most important interlocutors of Steve Biko and Black
Consciousness philosophy, More challenges us to reflect on
"Being-Black-in-an-Anti-Black-World"-the ontological impossibility
of being Black and being a philosopher-as he engages Africana
philosophies born of struggle. Looking Through Philosophy in Black
is a remarkable and engaging story of life and the human condition.
Doggedly resisting philosophy's epistemic apartheid, its racism and
its colored-blindness, More asks us to contest the absurd
mediocrity, downright incompetency and paucity of thinking in
higher education and by extension in civil society. -- Nigel C.
Gibson, Associate Professor, Institute for Liberal Arts and
Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College
Looking Through Philosophy in Black: Memoirs is not only a
chronicler and definer, it is a courageous narrative that takes
philosophy head-on from the locus of blackness. Mabogo P. More
makes a unique and extraordinary contribution to self-writing with
a lucid craft that grapples with the question of being in the
world. -- Tendayi Sithole, Author of Steve Biko: Decolonial
Meditations of Black Consciousness
A compelling account of a life lived in fidelity to the urgency of
freedom, More's autobiography is marked by a profound and sustained
commitment, against the odds, to philosophy as a practice of
freedom. This account of the life of the mind, made against the
dead weight of racism, moves from the outskirts of Johannesburg to
the world via jazz, philosophy and struggle. -- Richard Pithouse,
Associate Professor, Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research,
University of the Witwatersrand
Looking Through Philosophy in Black is a tour de force, a work that
delivers. It is a powerful existential reflection on African and
Africana philosophy, and at the same time a highly revealing
account of what it means to be a Black philosopher today. -- Paget
Henry, Professor of Africana Studies and Sociology, Brown
University
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