Insurrectionist Ethics

'Insurrectionist Ethics' is the name given to denote the myriad forms of justification for radical social transformation in the interest of freedom for oppressed people. It is a set of advocacy systems that usually aim at liberation for specified populations under siege in a given society. While the identities of these beleaguered groups is always intersectional, one salient criterion of group membership is often chosen to be the rallying point for solidarity. Whether the movement is Black Lives Matter, Gay Pride, or Poor People's Campaign, at the nucleus of each is a cry for emancipation. The contributions in this volume put forward bold, forcefully argued, provocative claims that challenge in a fundamental and radical way the presuppositions, values, and beliefs that underwrite the systems and structures that insurrectionist ethics calls into question. The volume begins with a section defining and theorizing what insurrectionist ethics is, and then moves to a sectionstudying insurrectionist ethics across the Americas. Additional sections focus on applications of and correctives to insurrectionist ethics, pragmatism and naturalism, and the past, present, and future of insurrectionist ethics.

Highlights African American, Latin American, and Indigenous American philosophies Includes world-renown scholars in philosophy and other related disciplines Covers topics in both the history of philosophy and current politics

Auteur

Jacoby Adeshei Carter is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Howard University, USA. He is Director of the Alain Leroy Locke Society and author of African American Contributions to the Americas' Cultures: Lectures by Alain Locke.
Darryl Scriven is Dean of Arts & Sciences and Fellow in the Shipley Center for Innovation at Clarkson University, USA. He is also Academic Chair of the Journal of Science, Healthcare, and the Humanities.

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'Insurrectionist Ethics' is the name given to denote the myriad forms of justification for radical social transformation in the interest of freedom for oppressed people. It is a set of advocacy systems that usually aim at liberation for specified populations under siege in a given society. While the identities of these beleaguered groups is always intersectional, one salient criterion of group membership is often chosen to be the rallying point for solidarity. Whether the movement is Black Lives Matter, Gay Pride , or Poor People s Campaign, at the nucleus of each is a cry for emancipation. The contributions in this volume put forward bold, forcefully argued, provocative claims that challenge in a fundamental and radical way the presuppositions, values, and beliefs that underwrite the systems and structures that insurrectionist ethics calls into question. The volume begins with a section defining and theorizing what insurrectionist ethics is, and then moves to a sectionstudying insurrectionist ethics across the Americas. Additional sections focus on applications of and correctives to insurrectionist ethics, pragmatism and naturalism, and the past, present, and future of insurrectionist ethics.

Contenu
Part I Insurrectionist Ethics: Conceptions and Contexts.- 1. The Very Idea of Insurrectionist Ethics.- 2. Revisioning Unalignment and Freedom: Insurrectionist Ethics in Marlon James' The Book of Night Women.- 3. Self-respect and the Obligation to Resist Oppression.- Part II Insurrectionist Ethics across the Americas.- 4. Theologizing Insurrection: On the Religious Dimension of Insurrectionist Ethics.- 5. Vicente Riva Palacio's Mexican Insurrectionist Ethics.- 6. Resistance and Multiplicity: Insurrectionist Ethics and Afro-Indigenous Acts of Solidarity.- Part III Insurrectionist Ethics: Applications and Correctives.- 7. Insurrectionist Ethics, Moral Suasion, and Violent Protests for Poor Policing.- 8. Anti-ethics as Insurrectionist Ethics: An Analysis of the Normative Foundations of Philosophies Born of Struggle.- Part IV Insurrectionist Ethics: Pragmatism and Naturalism.- 9. Leonard Harris's Insurrectionist Challenge to Pragmatism.- 10. Responding to Racial Injustice: Insurrection and Social Justice Pragmatism in Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Richard Rorty.- 11. Discernment behind Asylum Walls; Or, The Limits of Efficacious Reasoning.- Part V Insurrectionist Ethics: Past, Present, and Future.- 12. Death by a Thousand Cuts: Insurrectionist Ethics in a Present less Oppressive than the Past.