Caribbean, Essay Drafts, European, Postcolonial 07 Dec 2020 DRAFT: Citing and Siting the Afropostmodern: Lyotard and the Black Atlantic Here is a draft of a new essay on the afropostmodern, in which I refer to parts of Jean-François Lyotard's… John Drabinski
African, African-American, Caribbean, European, Middle Passage, Postcolonial 28 Apr 2019 ReBIT19 – Pessimism as Interpretative Frame The second annual symposium under the rubric Re-Thinking the Black Intellectual Tradition was held on March 30th, 2019. We gathered… John Drabinski No Comments
European 09 Jan 2017 Do widzenia, Zygmunt Bauman Rest in peace, Zygmunt Bauman. In my waning days as a teacher of things European, I started regularly teaching a… John Drabinski No Comments
African, African-American, Caribbean, European, Postcolonial, The Profession, Uncategorized, White-American 13 May 2016 Philosophy, Decolonization, #NotAllWhites When I posted this response to Garfield and Van Norden’s piece to my site, I figured it was a small… John Drabinski 2 Comments
African-American, European, Postcolonial, The Profession, White-American 11 May 2016 Diversity, “Neutrality,” Philosophy I was really happy to read a new opinion piece by Jay Garfield and Bryan Van Norden in The New… John Drabinski 24 Comments
European 29 Dec 2014 On Guenther’s Solitary Confinement Here are my long-ish remarks on Lisa Guenther's book Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives, for a book session at… John Drabinski No Comments
European 23 Oct 2014 Levinas and after The following is my response to comments by Sonia Sikka and Kris Sealey at the 23 October book session on… John Drabinski 5 Comments
European, The Profession 23 Jul 2014 Heidegger, racism, and scholarship My doctoral training was in European philosophy. At University of Memphis (1991-1996), I studied Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Irigaray,… John Drabinski 27 Comments
Caribbean, European, Postcolonial, The Profession 21 Dec 2013 Derrida, Eurocentrism, decolonization While I am not the biggest advocate of Aimé Césaire's work, I've always been taken in - in ways that… John Drabinski 1 Comment
Caribbean, European, Postcolonial 12 Dec 2013 Decolonizing the colonizer: three aspects What does it mean to decolonize the colonizer? In a previous post, I asked the question - which has largely… John Drabinski 1 Comment
