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Linda Martín Alcoff

    July 25, 1955

    Linda Martín Alcoff is a philosopher recognized for her work in epistemology, feminism, race theory, and existentialism. Her scholarship champions greater inclusion of historically underrepresented groups in philosophy, exploring the new fields of inquiry they have pioneered. Alcoff critically examines the intersections of identity, power, and knowledge, pushing the boundaries of contemporary philosophical discourse.

    Lisa, Papa Alfi und Schnuppi
    Lisa und Lina
    The Gingerbread Girl
    Identities
    The Future of Whiteness
    Pedagogics of Liberation: A Latin American Philosophy of Education
    • 2019

      Enrique Dussel is considered one of the founding philosophers of liberation in the Latin American tradition, an influential arm of what is now called decoloniality. While he is astoundingly prolific, relatively few of his works can be found in English translation -- and none of these focus specifically on education. Founding members of the Latin American Philosophy of Education Society David I. Backer and Cecilia Diego bring to us Dussel's Pedagogics of liberation : A Latin American Philosophy of Education, the first English translation of Dussel's thinking on education, and also the first translation of any part of his landmark multi-volume work Towards an Ethics of Latin American Liberation. Dussel's ouevre is an impressive intellectual mosaic that uses Europeans to disrupt European thinking. This mosaic has at its center French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, but also includes Ancient Greek philosophy, Thomist theology, modern Enlightenment philosophy, analytic philosophy of language, Marxism, psychoanalysis (Freud, Klein, evolutionary psychology, neuroscience), phenomenology (Sartre, Heidegger, Husserl, Hegel), critical theory (Frankfurt School, Habermas), and linguistics. Dussel joins these traditions to Latin American history, literature, and philosophy, specifically the work of Octavio Paz, Ivan Illich, and the philosophers of liberation whom Dussel studied with in Argentina before his exile to Mexico in the late 1970s

      Pedagogics of Liberation: A Latin American Philosophy of Education
    • 2017

      The Gingerbread Girl

      • 112 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      The Gingerbread Girl is a pastiche of 'Oliver Twist' by Charles Dickens, which was published in monthly instalments in 1837. The twist is that the heroine, thirteen year old Amy Watkins, better known to her friends as Ginge, is no victim like Oliver, but a very feisty young lady.

      The Gingerbread Girl
    • 2015

      White identity is in ferment. White, European Americans living in the United States will soon share an unprecedented experience of slipping below 50% of the population.

      The Future of Whiteness
    • 2003

      Identities

      Race, Class, Gender and Nationality

      • 448 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      This anthology provides the definitive theoretical sources of contemporary thinking about identity, including explorations of race, class, gender, and nationality.

      Identities