A Philosophy of Struggle: The Leonard Harris Reader [Paperback]

Collating, for the first time, the key writings of Leonard Harris, this volume introduces readers to a leading figure in African-American and liberatory thought.

Harris' writings on honor, insurrectionist ethics, tradition, and his work on Alain Locke have established him as a leading figure in critical philosophy. His timely and urgent responses to structural racism and structural violence mark him out as a bold cultural commentator and a deft theoretician.

The wealth and depth of Harris' writings are brought to the fore in this collection and the incisive introduction by Lee McBride serves to orient, contextualize, and frame an oeuvre that spans four decades. In his prolegomenon, Harris eschews the classical meaning of philosophy, supplanting it with an idiosyncratic conception of philosophy-philosophia nata ex conatu-that features an avowedly value-laden dimension. As well as serving as an introduction to Harris' philosophy,A Philosophy of Struggleprovides new insights into how we ought conceptualize philosophy, race, tradition, and insurrection in the 21st century.

Leonard Harrisis Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, USA. He is a specialist in the work of Alain LeRoy Locke and a founding member of Philosophy Born of Struggle (PBOS).

Lee A. McBride IIIis Associate Professor of Philosophy at The College of Wooster, USA.

This book includes the main texts that have marked out Leonard Harris' continuing combat against all that separate humans from other humans, the human from her humanity. And as we feel the wind blowing through the pages of this Reader, we are reminded that the demand for radical questioning and examination which defines philosophy is first and foremost a force of emancipation. Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, USA

A Philosophy Born of Struggle: The Leonard Harris Reader, is the only collection of its kindlc°