A Philosophy of Struggle

Book excerpt: Part I: Prolegomenon.What, then, is "Philosophy Born of Struggle"? : Philosophia nata ex conatu : (philosophy as, and sourced by, strife, tenaciousness, organisms striving} --Part II: Immiseration and racism (oppressions as nacro-being).The concept of racism : an essentially contested concept? (1998) --What, then, is racism? (1999) --Nacro-being : an actuarial account of racism (2018) --Part III: Honor and dignity (reason and efficacious agency).Autonomy under duress (1992) --Honor : emasculation and empowerment (1992) --Tolerance, reconciliation, and groups (2003) --Dignity and subjection (2018) --Part IV: An ethics of insurrection; or, leaving the asylum (virtues of tenacity).Honor and insurrection or a short story about why John Brown (with David Walker's spirit) was right and Frederick Douglass (with Benjamin Banneker's spirit) was wrong (1999) --Insurrectionist ethics : advocacy, moral psychology, and pragmatism (2002) --Can a pragmatist recite a Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note? or insurrectionist challenges to pragmatism-Walker, Child, and Locke (2018) --Part V: Bridges to future traditions.Universal human liberation : community and multiculturalism (1998) --Community : Whatr type of entity and what type of moral commitment? (2001) --Tradition and modernity : Panopticons and Barricados --The honor of tradition or how to burn Babylon and build Benin while reading a Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (1997) --Telos and tradition : making the future-bridges to future traditions (2014).