{"product_id":"black-thought-matters-1","title":"Black Thought Matters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe profound influence of African and  Afro-diasporic philosophy on Western  thought has, throughout history, been  denied and dismissed. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an act of political and ideological  defiance, \u003ci\u003eBlack Thought Matters\u003c\/i\u003e 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 historical epochs—antiquity, the  Enlightenment, the age of empire, and the  modern world—LaRose T. Parris  uncovers the persistent erasure,  whitening, and distortion of Black thought.  To rewrite this record, she draws on  sources from Antef to Ibn Rushd, and  Anna Julia Cooper to Frantz Fanon, as  well as contemporary Africana  philosophers, to construct a powerful  counter-history that places Black thought  at the centre rather than the margins of  human knowledge. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn making the case for Africana  philosophy’s centrality to the genesis and  movement of global philosophical and  political thought, this book also valorizes  transnational liberation efforts efforts  repudiating Black dehumanization,  criminalization, and extermination through  state-sponsored police murder. Affirming  Black thought’s relevance announces a  commitment to the import of Africana  thinkers whose work laid the foundation  for Black Lives Matter’s ethical and  political mission: to emphasize the  intrinsic value of Black life and struggle to  advance a radical egalitarianism wherein  all lives are truly equal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56672637190488,"sku":"9781350536531","price":77.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350536531.jpg?v=1780035369","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/black-thought-matters-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}