{"product_id":"foundations-of-black-epistemology-knowledge-discourse-in-africana-philosophy-paperback-softback-9781439925485","title":"Foundations of Black Epistemology; Knowledge Discourse in Africana Philosophy (Paperback \/ softback) 9781439925485","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFoundations of Black Epistemology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eKnowledge Discourse in Africana Philosophy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAdebayo Oluwayomi (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781439925485\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 July 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e266 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.4 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"[A] necessary read for all those who, despite the global dominance of post-truth ideology, still believe in the importance of knowledge and its power to make the world a better place.\" —\u003ci\u003e Modern Times Review \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Oluwayomi has provided an array of epistemologies, in both their competing lines of reason and the convergent lines of agreement. In so doing, he uncovers the foundations—that is, the background assumptions and starting points enlivening a heritage of issues and debates long hidden in plain sight. Oluwayomi is to be applauded. Foundations of Black Epistemology\u003ci\u003e will be part of the ongoing sphere of books providing enlightenment and will fuel new debates.” — Dr. Leonard Harris, Joyce and Edward E. Brewer Chair in Applied Ethics at Purdue University \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eFoundations of Black Epistemology\u003ci\u003e takes readers on a challenging, necessary, and innovative philosophical journey, one that has deep metaphilosophical implications for how we must think about Black people as social epistemologists, epistemic agents, and creators of a rich subdisciplinary area within the context of Africana philosophy. Through insightful exegeses of the works of Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley, Frantz Fanon, Steve Banto Biko, and other Black scholars, Adebayo Oluwayomi ensures that we critically remain cognizant of tracing the deformations of Black thought, but he also demands that we remain attentive as he tells a fecund historical narrative of Black epistemic agency that humanizes Black modes of being-in-the-world and legitimizes the independence of Black intellectual thought.” — George Yancy, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eFoundations of Black Epistemology\u003c\/i\u003e is Adebayo Oluwayomi’s bold endeavor to delineate Black epistemology as a new sub-disciplinary focus in contemporary Africana or Black philosophy. He engages in a rigorous historical study of Black intellectual history to show how seminal Black thinkers have long been interested in and engaged with questions concerning the phenomenon of human knowledge, and questions around human agency, including practical considerations regarding the social and political value of knowledge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFoundations of Black Epistemology\u003c\/i\u003e examines writings by Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. DuBois, Frantz Fanon, Steve Bantu Biko, Huey P. Newton, and Kathleen Neal Cleaver. Each chapter addresses issues of self-knowledge, self-assertion, Black consciousness, or anticolonialism and its relation to personal and political epistemologies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Oluwayomi offers innovative perspectives on the formulation, deduction, and interrogation of epistemological themes within Black Africana philosophy. By considering the important epistemological theories and arguments in Black philosophy particularly in the last 150 to 200 years, \u003ci\u003eFoundations of Black Epistemology\u003c\/i\u003e promises to generate new discussions around this necessary field of Black Africana philosophy.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670827430168,"sku":"9781439925485","price":21.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/foundations-of-black-epistemology-knowledge-discourse-in-africana-philosophy-paperback-softback-9781439925485","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}