Decolonizing Philosophy

Rolf Elberfeld is Professor of Cultural Philosophy at the University of Hildesheim. Steven Corcoran is the Secretary of Parrhesia, School of Philosophy, Berlin. He is the editor of The Badiou Dictionary and the editor and translator of Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics by Jacques Rancière.

• IntroductionI. Philosophy Backdropped by European Expansion1. Latin-American Perspectives2. Japanese Perspectives3. African PerspectivesII. Philosophical Universalization and European Conquest since 1492 1. Thomas More, Utopia2. Francisco de Vitoria, De Indis3. Hugo Grotius, Mare liberumIII. Strategies for the "Perfecting" of Others: Christianization, Civilization, Modernization1. Saving Souls through Baptism2. Saving Souls through Mass Education3. Saving Souls through Economic Growth and Technology IV. Philosophical Discriminations — Racism, Anti-Semitism, Sexism1. "Scientific" Racial Thinking and the Emergence of Racism2. Jews as a "Threat to Europe"3. Woman as "Failed Man"V. European Historiographies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries1. The Theorization of History as Science Around 17502. Eighteenth-Century Colonial Reconstructions of World History3. The Heroization of Western Philosophical History in the Name of Universal ReasonVI. The Haitian Revolution, Black Intellectuals, and Raynal's History of European Expansion1. The Haitian Slave Uprising of 17912. Black Intellectuals in Europe and the U.S. since the Eighteenth Century3. Raynal's History of European ExpansionVII. Languages: Philosophical and Political Dimensions1. "Languages" and the Formation of "Nations"2. Language Colonialism3. The Diversity of Languages and Philosophies VIII. Comparative, Intercultural, and Decolonial Philosophy 1. Comparative Philosophy2. Intercultural Philosophy3. Decolonial PhilosophyIX. Decolonizing University Knowledge Systems in Europe1. University Knowledge Systems in Europe and European Expansion2. "Research" as Non-Word in the Indigenous World3. "Why is My Curriculum White?"X. Women in Western and Non-Western Philosophy1. Women in the History of Western Philosophy2. Postcolonial and Decolonial Feminism3. Women in Non-Western PhilosophyXI. Telling Histories of Philosophies1. Histories of Philosophies from Global Perspectives2. (Inter-)Weaving Histories of Philosophies 3. Global Histories of Thought XII. Epistemic Decolonization in Europe: Philosophical Responsibility and Critique 1. A Decolonial Critique of Knowledge Systems in Europe 2. Resolving the History of Colonial Entanglements 3. Assuming Philosophical Responsibility vs. Apportioning BlameNotesBibliographyIndex

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