Lewis Gordon

Lewis Gordon
Lewis Gordon
Born	Lewis Ricardo Gordon; May 12, 1962
Spouse	Jane Anna Gordon
Education
Alma mater	Lehman College (CUNY); Yale University;
Doctoral advisor	Maurice Natanson
Philosophical work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy; Black existentialism
Institutions	Purdue University; Brown University; Temple University; University of Connecticut;
Doctoral students	Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Phillip Barron
Main interests	Africana philosophy; Black existentialism; phenomenology;

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Lewis Ricardo Gordon (born May 12, 1962) is an American philosopher at the University of Connecticut who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and racism, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion. He has written particularly extensively on Africana and black existentialism, postcolonial phenomenology, race and racism, and on the works and thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon.