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LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room
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SUMMARY:Habermas and the Reframing of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:This year's seminar\, Burning Issues in African Philosophy\, i
 s curated by Drucilla Cornell and Souleymane Bachir Diagne a
 nd presented by the Institute of African Studies at Columbia
  University. It includes six seminars with Souleymane Bachir
  Diagne\, Paget Henry\, Nkiru Nzegwu\, Olufemi Taiwo\, Nadia Yal
 a Kisukidi\, and Lewis Gordon. It builds off of the sophisti
 cated work that has now become part of an international conv
 ersation on how African philosophy makes unique intervention
 s into almost every important question of politics\, ethics\, 
 aesthetics\, ontology and epistemology. It begins by challen
 ging the conventional Afro-pessimistic view of time as being
  unable to organize a future perspective that would allow fo
 r adequate industrialization and development. If time is wha
 t happens inseparable from events\, this does not mean that t
 here is no future in African philosophy. What it means is th
 at there is no future that can be foreclosed or known in adv
 ance and thus possibilities for the future remain open. It i
 s therefore up to our actions to bring about the future that
  we want.\n\n 
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