Insurrectionist Ethics

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.

• 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.