
He will be in conversation with Dennis Davis, one of South Africa’s most respected legal minds and appointed as a judge at the High Court of Cape Town by Nelson Mandela.Īfter first broadcast this stream will be available to watch on demand until Thu 31 Mar. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black Existentialism, joins us live from the US to discuss his ground-breaking look at how racial identity is constructed and experienced through history, art, politics and popular culture.ĭescribed by Judith Butler as ‘a thinker whose reflections on race have produced singular illuminations on our times’, Gordon is head of philosophy at UCONN-Storrs, visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg and honorary president of the Global Center for Advanced Studies. Gordon on racial identityĪfrican-Jewish philosopher Lewis R.
