Edward O’byrn
Biographic Data
| ID | 214875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward O’byrn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | O’byrn |
| SIGNATURE | O’BYRN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Nothing and Infinity
This article explores the conclusion of Calvin Warren’s book Ontological Terror and the nihilistic suggestion for Black life to reject humanism. In the text’s final chapter, Warren unexpectedly references Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard’s leap of faith and reflects on Black life’s enduring spirit through an anti-Black world. This article’s analysis faithfully traces Warren’s nihilistic arguments against humanism and scaffolds them through hi…
Simone de Beauvoir, Analogy, Intersectionality, and Expanding Philosophy
In this interview with Kathryn Sophia Belle (formerly Kathryn T. Gines), Edward O'Byrn discusses Belle's publications from 2010–2017. His questions focus on Simone de Beauvoir and her use of analogy in The Second Sex , along with broader questions that engage Belle's work on existential philosophy, Beauvoir, Black feminism, and intersectionality
Reading Angela Davis Beyond the Critique of Sartre
This paper examines Angela Davis’s 1969 Lectures on Liberation and her critique of Jean-Paul Sartre’s views regarding freedom and enslaved agency. Across four sections, the paper etches out Davis’s response to what she calls Sartre’s ‘notorious statement’ through her own existential reading of Frederick Douglass’s resistance to chattel slavery. Instead of interpreting Davis’s existential insights through the work of Sartre or other Western contin…
Fear of Black Consciousness
Lewis Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness is a resolute response to the ongoing pessimism present in contemporary culture and academia regarding Black life. As a towering figure in Black existential philosophy, Gordon seamlessly weaves together discussions of contemporary and historical Western philosophers such as Gabriel Marcel and Friedrich Nietzsche with his analyses of film, music, culture, and more. Across the text's twelve chapters, Gordo…
Anti-Racism and Existential Philosophy
Kathryn Sophia Belle’s (formerly Kathryn T. Gines’) publications engaged in this interview: 2003 (Fanon/Sartre 50 yrs) “Sartre and Fanon Fifty Years Later: To Retain or Reject the Concept of Race,” Sartre Studies International , Vol. 9, Issue 2 (2003): 55-67, https://doi.org/10.3167/135715503781800213. 2010 (Convergences) “Sartre, Beauvoir, and the Race/Gender Analogy: A Case for Black Feminist Philosophy” in Convergences: Black Feminism and Cont…
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Anti-Racism and Existential Philosophy
Kathryn Sophia Belle’s (formerly Kathryn T. Gines’) publications engaged in this interview: 2003 (Fanon/Sartre 50 yrs) “Sartre and Fanon Fifty Years Later: To Retain or Reject the Concept of Race,” Sartre Studies International , Vol. 9, Issue 2 (2003): 55-67, https://doi.org/10.3167/135715503781800213. 2010 (Convergences) “Sartre, Beauvoir, and the Race/Gender Analogy: A Case for Black Feminist Philosophy” in Convergences: Black Feminism and Cont…
Reading Angela Davis Beyond the Critique of Sartre
This paper examines Angela Davis’s 1969 Lectures on Liberation and her critique of Jean-Paul Sartre’s views regarding freedom and enslaved agency. Across four sections, the paper etches out Davis’s response to what she calls Sartre’s ‘notorious statement’ through her own existential reading of Frederick Douglass’s resistance to chattel slavery. Instead of interpreting Davis’s existential insights through the work of Sartre or other Western contin…
Fear of Black Consciousness
Lewis Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness is a resolute response to the ongoing pessimism present in contemporary culture and academia regarding Black life. As a towering figure in Black existential philosophy, Gordon seamlessly weaves together discussions of contemporary and historical Western philosophers such as Gabriel Marcel and Friedrich Nietzsche with his analyses of film, music, culture, and more. Across the text's twelve chapters, Gordo…
Simone de Beauvoir, Analogy, Intersectionality, and Expanding Philosophy
In this interview with Kathryn Sophia Belle (formerly Kathryn T. Gines), Edward O'Byrn discusses Belle's publications from 2010–2017. His questions focus on Simone de Beauvoir and her use of analogy in The Second Sex , along with broader questions that engage Belle's work on existential philosophy, Beauvoir, Black feminism, and intersectionality
Nothing and Infinity
This article explores the conclusion of Calvin Warren’s book Ontological Terror and the nihilistic suggestion for Black life to reject humanism. In the text’s final chapter, Warren unexpectedly references Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard’s leap of faith and reflects on Black life’s enduring spirit through an anti-Black world. This article’s analysis faithfully traces Warren’s nihilistic arguments against humanism and scaffolds them through hi…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Existentialism (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Feminism (2 works)