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'''Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò''' is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of California Los Angeles. He has published in academic journals ranging from ''Public Affairs Quarterly, One Earth, Philosophical Papers'', and the American Philosophical Association newsletter ''Philosophy and the Black Experience''. | '''Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò''' is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of California Los Angeles. He has published in academic journals ranging from ''Public Affairs Quarterly, One Earth, Philosophical Papers'', and the American Philosophical Association newsletter ''Philosophy and the Black Experience''. |
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of California Los Angeles. He has published in academic journals ranging from Public Affairs Quarterly, One Earth, Philosophical Papers, and the American Philosophical Association newsletter Philosophy and the Black Experience.
Táíwò’s theoretical work draws liberally from the Black radical tradition, anti-colonial thought, German transcendental philosophy, contemporary philosophy of language, contemporary social science, and histories of activism and activist thinkers.
His public philosophy, including articles exploring intersections of climate justice and colonialism, has been featured in The New Yorker, The Nation, Boston Review, Dissent, The Appeal, Slate, Al Jazeera, The New Republic, Aeon, and Foreign Policy.
He is the author of Elite Capture and Reconsidering Reparations. (2022)
- Works
- Legal Naturalism: A Marxist Theory of Law, Cornell University Press, 1996.
- How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa, Indiana University Press, 2009.
- Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics, Haymarket Books, 2022
- Reconsidering Reparations: Worldmaking in the Case of Climate Crisis, Oxford University Press, 2022.
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