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SUMMARY:Frank Wilderson III
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nAfropessimism \npublished by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton \n\n\n\n\n\nIn the tradition of Edward Said’s Orientalism and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin\, White Masks\, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of the non-analogous experience of being Black. \nA seminal work that strikingly combines groundbreaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir\, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorizes blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression\, Frank B. Wilderson III\, “a truly indispensable thinker” (Fred Moten)\, demonstrates that the social construct of slavery\, as seen through pervasive\, anti-black subjugation and violence\, is hardly a relic of the past but an almost necessary force in our civilization that flourishes today\, and that Black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed group. In mellifluous prose\, Wilderson juxtaposes his seemingly idyllic upbringing in halcyon midcentury Minneapolis with the harshness that he would later encounter\, whether in radicalized\, late-1960s Berkeley or in the slums of Soweto. Following in the rich literary tradition of works by DuBois\, Malcolm X and Baldwin\, Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit. \nProfessor and chair of African American studies at the University of California\, Irvine\, and author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid\, Frank B. Wilderson III has received an NEA Literature Fellowship and a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Creative Nonfiction\, among other awards. \nWhat has been said about the work of Frank Wilderson III: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrank Wilderson slings piercing stories and scalding analyses with literary fire and intellectual rigor. His tales juke genre and high-step over high-theory mumbo jumbo\, and float Franz Fanon some new wings. Like Ralph Ellison’s bluesman\, he peers unflinching into the abyss\, testifies to its brutal histories and hopeless predicaments\, ‘to finger its jagged grain\, and to transcend it\, not through the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic\, near-comic lyricism.’ He ghostwrites our brutal pasts into present and still hopeless predicaments\, yet divines deep love and blues humor. Even if our own hopes may live elsewhere\, we cannot dismiss Afropessimism’s unnerving and undeniable truths\, nor the timeless art of its author.  \n-Timothy B. Tyson\, author of The Blood of Emmett Till \nA writer of hard\, searing lyricism…. [Wilderson] is\, to my mind\, an indispensible thinker. \n-Fred Moten\, author of The Undercommons
URL:https://litseen.com/event/frank-wilderson-iii/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:9th Avenue: John Kaag at Green Apple Books
DESCRIPTION:ohn Kaag discusses his new book\, Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life. \nPraise for Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds \n“Kaag’s reading of James is as elucidating as readers have come to expect from him. Once again\, he writes in a clear\, focused\, and winningly self-aware style that makes friends of James and himself for anyone who wonders if life is worth living. A book in which Kaag further carves out his niche in philosophy: personal\, practical\, and crucial.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Not since Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance have I read such a mesmerizing confluence of personal experience and formal thought as John Kaag’s American Philosophy: A Love Story. That combination is on display again in his Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds—a brief and powerful book about one of America’s most profound minds\, William James\, and what he can teach us about what makes life worth living.”―Robert D. Richardson\, author of William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism \n“In this beautifully written book\, which is filled with bracing insights\, John Kaag shows why William James has had a deep\, life-altering\, therapeutic effect on his readers over the past century—and can continue to have the same effect on new readers today.”—Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen\, author of American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas \nAbout Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds \nIn 1895\, William James\, the father of American philosophy\, delivered a lecture entitled “Is Life Worth Living?” It was no theoretical question for James\, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed\, as John Kaag writes\, “James’s entire philosophy\, from beginning to end\, was geared to save a life\, his life”—and that’s why it just might be able to save yours\, too. Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds is a compelling introduction to James’s life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology—and an inspiration for Alcoholics Anonymous—can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living. \nKaag tells how James’s experiences as one of what he called the “sick-souled\,” those who think that life might be meaningless\, drove him to articulate an ideal of “healthy-mindedness”—an attitude toward life that is open\, active\, and hopeful\, but also realistic about its risks. In fact\, all of James’s pragmatism\, resting on the idea that truth should be judged by its practical consequences for our lives\, is a response to\, and possible antidote for\, crises of meaning that threaten to undo many of us at one time or another. Along the way\, Kaag also movingly describes how his own life has been endlessly enriched by James.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-avenue-john-kaag-at-green-apple-books/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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