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Philosophy
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The Souls of Black Folk
Fourteen chapters, thirteen essays and a short story, several revised from earlier magazine pieces, in which Du Bois sets out to show the spiritual world of Black Americans…
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Black Skin, White Masks
Fanon's first book, written while he was training in medicine and psychiatry in Lyon, analyses the psychology of colonial racism from the standpoint of a Black man from…
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African Philosophy: Myth and Reality
A collection of essays by the Beninese philosopher Paulin Hountondji that became a starting point of the debate over what African philosophy is. Hountondji attacks what he calls…
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Sage Philosophy: Indigenous Thinkers and Modern Debate on African Philosophy
The Kenyan philosopher H. Odera Oruka's answer to the question whether there was philosophy in Africa before writing. Against both ethnophilosophy, which attributed a single worldview to whole…
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The Ringstones of Wisdom (Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam)
Ibn 'Arabī's most studied and most controversial work, which he says the Prophet Muhammad gave him in a vision in Damascus in 1229. Its twenty-seven chapters each set…
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Written in Chile, where Freire lived in exile after the 1964 military coup in Brazil, and drawing on his work teaching adult peasants and workers to read. Freire…
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The Conference of the Birds
A Persian narrative poem in which the birds of the world gather and resolve to seek a king. The hoopoe, who served Solomon, tells them their king is…
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The Cosmic Race
An essay by José Vasconcelos, philosopher and Mexico's first Secretary of Public Education after the Revolution, published after a journey to South America. Against the doctrines of racial…
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Treatise on the Golden Lion
A very short essay, traditionally said to have been composed by Fazang, the great systematiser of Huayan Buddhism, to explain its teaching to Empress Wu Zetian by pointing…
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Han Feizi
The collected writings associated with Han Fei, a prince of the state of Han who, according to tradition, studied with Xunzi, and whose ideas were taken up by…
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