Lewis R. Gordon

Title

Lewis R. Gordon

Birthplace

Jamaica

Primary Sources

Gordon, L. R. (2025). Psychoanalysis as a decolonial practice: Psychoanalysis as a Decolonial Practice. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00513-w

Gordon, L. R. (2024). Living Phenomenology as a Decolonial Practice. Philosophies, 9(6), 175. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies9060175

Gordon, L.R., Maart, R. , & Dey, S. (Eds.). (2023). Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge: Writings of Lewis R. Gordon. London: Bloomsbury Academic. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350343801

Gordon, L. R. (2022). Fear of Black consciousness. Penguin UK.

Gordon, L. R. (2022). Existential Philosophy and Antiracism An Interview with Lewis R. Gordon. Sartre Studies International, 28(2), 1. https://doi.org/10.3167/ssi.2022.280202

Gordon, L. (2020). Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003112594

Gordon, L.R., Menzel, A., Shulman, G., & Syedullah , J. (2018). Afro-pessimism. Contemporary Political Theory, 17, 105–137. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-017-0165-4

Gordon, L.R. (2015). What Fanon said: A philosophical introduction to his life and thought. Fordham University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt13x08sb

Gordon, L. R., Ciccariello-Maher, G., Maldonado-Torres, N., & Center, P. D. (2013). Frantz Fanon, Fifty Years On. Radical Philosophy Review, 16(1), 307–324. https://doi.org/10.5840/RADPHILREV201316125

Gordon, L.R. (1995). Sartrean Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism. In Crowell, S.G. (Ed.), The Prism of the Self. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 19. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8408-1_8

Gordon, L.R. (1995). Fanon and the crisis of European man: An essay on philosophy and the human sciences. Routledge.

Gordon, L.R. (1997). Her majesty's other children: Sketches of racism from a neocolonial age. Rowman & Littlefield.

Secondary Sources

Bragato F. F and Gordon, L.R. (2018) Geopolitics and decolonization: perspectives from the global South. Rowman & Littlefield International.
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786610881/Geopolitics-and-Decolonization-Perspectives-from-the-Global-South

Bergo, B and Nicholls, T. (eds.) (2021). "I Don't See Color": Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege. Penn State University.

Garrett, E. (2011). The Rhetoric of Antiblack Racism: Lewis R. Gordon’s Radical Phenomenology of Embodiment. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 19(1), 6–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2011.537593

Extra Resources

Episode 117. Black Consciousness with Lewis Gordon (November 20, 2024). Overthink Podcast. YouTube. Accessed March 25, 2025. https://youtu.be/f0pJSYYmKTA

An Interview: "The Brilliance of an Intellectual Philosopher & Scholar", Dr. Lewis Gordon (May 26, 2023). Professor Man - CEO. YouTube. https://youtu.be/ZfbvM4RbUsg

Andrews, K. (March 14, 2022). Fear Of Black Conciousness by Lewis Gordon review- why minds, not bodies, are the problem. The Guardian. Accessed August 3, 2022. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/13/fear-of-black-consciousness-by-lewis-gordon-review-why-minds-not-bodies-are-the-problem 

Why Fearing Black Consciousness is a Form of Bad Faith - Lewis R. Gordon (March 9 2022). SOAS University of London. YouTube. Accessed August 3, 2022. https://youtu.be/teyX3TnrEo4

Lewis R. Gordon - Fear of Black Consciousness (April 9, 2021). The Brainwaves Video Anthology. Youtube. Accessed August 3, 2022. https://youtu.be/9DpFaKpkEyY

Lewis R. Gordon - Freedom, justice, and decolonization (February 1, 2021). The Brainwaves Video Anthology. Youtube. Accessed August 3, 2022. https://youtu.be/yaWvfLQPOw4

Citation

“Lewis R. Gordon,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 13, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/522.

Output Formats