Prof. LaRose T. Parris

The profound influence of African and Afro-diasporic philosophy on Western thought has, throughout history, been denied and dismissed. In an act of political and ideological defiance, Black Thought Matters traces the early production of philosophical thought to the African continent, disrupting the hegemonic Eurocentric narrative of the Enlightenment as the triumph of human rationality and intellectualism over blind religiosity. Across...

The profound influence of African and Afro-diasporic philosophy on Western thought has, throughout history, been denied and dismissed. In an act of political and ideological defiance, Black Thought Matters traces the early production of philosophical thought to the African continent, disrupting the hegemonic Eurocentric narrative of the Enlightenment as the triumph of human rationality and intellectualism over blind religiosity. Across...