Paul C Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul C Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul C |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Liberal Arts University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7739-1498 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Breadth and Depth, Perfectionism and Paradox: Reading Black Politics by a Darkened Light
Rogers’s remarkable book manages to be both deep and broad, both provocative and persuasive; it attends with equal care to the burdens of historical reflection and of theoretical investigation. I’ve learned a great deal from the text, and expect to keep learning as I return to it over time. One admirable feature is the ease with which it explores particularism while resisting parochialism. Rogers examines a distinctively black tradition of politi…
Tree Meet Fence: Dewey, Dorchester Projects , and the Philosophy of Socially Engaged Art
Despite resisting easy translation into the cadences of analytic philosophy, certain parts of John Dewey's thought have something important to offer analytic aesthetics. One way to show this is to consider how an account that makes no reference to Dewey might have been benefited from taking on board some of the insights from Art as Experience. To that end, this essay will consider Vid Simoniti's recent study of socially engaged art, with a partic…
Ecce Negro: Como se tornar um teórico da raça
Este artigo examina as interseções entre a filosofia nietzschiana e o pensamento afro-americano, com foco especial na teoria racial. O autor relata seu contato pessoal com as obras de Nietzsche e como isso influenciou seu desenvolvimento filosófico, levando-o ao pragmatismo e ao Afrocentrismo. Ele se envolve criticamente com a abordagem afrocêntrica de Molefi Asante, destacando seus pontos fortes na recuperação da agência africana, mas também cri…
Dark Futures: Toward a Philosophical Archaeology of Hope
Early in World War I, Virginia Woolf wrote these words: ‘The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be [...]’. It is tempting to assume that darkness simply hides the unknown and the threatening. It is more challenging to think of it as Woolf did: rich with possibility in even the most desperate times. We live in what many would readily describe as dark times. These times have brought (among much else) a once-in-a-ce…
Beauty, Politics, Practice: Balfour on Morrison on Democracy
Beauty, Politics, Practice:Balfour on Morrison on Democracy Paul C. Taylor (bio) 1 "Does it do Morrison a disservice to read her as a political thinker?"1 This question organizes Lawrie Balfour's contribution to the ground-breaking African American Political Thought volume edited by Rogers and Turner, and it remains on her mind in the more recent, equally insightful essay, "More Beautiful Than Democracy." The earlier piece acknowledges the risks …
Marital Shade: Studies in Intersectional Invisibility
As legal scholar Ariela Dubler notes, the institution of marriage casts a long shadow across contemporary social life. Much more than a way of conferring social sanction on sexual and romantic relationships, marriage unlocks a wide range of social goods, from inheritance rights to medical records access. In addition, though, and as generations of feminists, queer activists, and others have made clear, this institution is part of a wider network o…
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Race
Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race
Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics
BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics. Paul C. Taylor. "Combining a background in Anglo-American aesthetics with a deep knowledge of black expressive culture, and ramified by a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary mastery of cultural studies across the humanities, Paul Taylor's Black is Beautiful succeeds in situating black aesthetics in a strikingly original way, one which is not only valuable in itself, but also commendably reinvigorat…
Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics
On the Very Idea of a Philosophical Culture: Or, The American Evasion of Politics
Carlin Romano has set himself the task of rebranding both the United States and philosophy. His United States is a distinctly philosophical enterprise, and philosophy in this United States is much more democratic and diverse than a mostly white, mostly male, elite-aspirant academic discipline. I endorse a great deal of the argument that supports Romano’s story. I admire his determination to re-read the history and sociology of philosophy, to trea…
Context and Complaint: On Racial Disorientation
Taking Postracialism Seriously: From Movement Mythology to Racial Formation
This essay reconsiders the prospects for postracialist discourse. Critics tend not to take seriously enough the strongest case that can be made for viewing contemporary U.S. racial politics through the postracial lens. As a result, some important criticisms-the ones that survive postracialism's reformulation in these stronger terms-have yet to be fully developed. It is important to develop a critique of the strongest form of postracialism, becaus…
Race Problems, Unknown Publics, Paralysis, and Faith
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
This chapter contains sections titled: The Person The Social Context The Intellectual Context The Work Impact and Assessment Bibliography
Black Aesthetics
This article introduces the preoccupations and themes that define the study and practice of black aesthetics. It presents a provisional sketch of a field that has long been recognized in other humanities disciplines, but that is only now gaining wide notice in academic philosophy. This sketch emphasizes the aspects of the field that invite specifically philosophic scrutiny, while touching lightly on specific artworks, critical literatures and his…
Race, Rehabilitated - Redux
Race, Rehabilitated - Redux' explores the metaphysics of passing as a propadeutic to the interdisciplinary practice of critical race theory. Racial metaphysics asks whether races and racial identities exist, what they might be if they do exist, and what race-talk refers to if these things do not exist. Arguments that seek to deny racial categories any role in serious social analysis - arguments of the sort delivered by literary theorist Walter Be…
A Future for Africana (Post-)Analytic Philosophy
Recent years have brought substantial changes in the conditions that motivate and frame the work of Africana philosophy. Racist domination has largely given way to racialized hegemony; formal colonization has largely given way to neoliberal trade, aid, and debt regimes; and towering revolutionaries and reformers continue to give way to younger generations of politicians, scholars, artists, and activists. In light of these and other developments, …
We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity
Post-Black, Old Black
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Silence and Sympathy: Dewey’s Whiteness
JOHN DEWEY INTRODUCES AN EDITION of Claude McKay’s Selected Poems by saying, more or less, that there is nothing he can say.1 He begins with a lament about how commentary and praise seem “impertinent” and “idle,” and he ends, a few paragraphs later, by confessing that the poet’s depiction of life under white supremacy leaves white men able to express only “humiliated sympathy.” My first encounter-my first several, actually-with this text left me …
Appiah’s Uncompleted Argument: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Reality of Race
Etude du debat metaphysique et moral sur l'existence des races opposant la these eliminativiste de K. A. Appiah a la these socio-historique de W.E.B. Du Bois. Interrogeant le fondement ontologique des institutions et pratiques raciales, l'A. mesure les consequences de l'affirmation de la non-existence des races du point de vue de l'ethique de l'identification raciale et de la pragmatique du racialisme biologique
So Black and Blue: Response to Rudinow
Black Aesthetics
This article introduces the preoccupations and themes that define the study and practice of black aesthetics. It presents a provisional sketch of a field that has long been recognized in other humanities disciplines, but that is only now gaining wide notice in academic philosophy. This sketch emphasizes the aspects of the field that invite specifically philosophic scrutiny, while touching lightly on specific artworks, critical literatures and his…
Taking Postracialism Seriously: From Movement Mythology to Racial Formation
This essay reconsiders the prospects for postracialist discourse. Critics tend not to take seriously enough the strongest case that can be made for viewing contemporary U.S. racial politics through the postracial lens. As a result, some important criticisms-the ones that survive postracialism's reformulation in these stronger terms-have yet to be fully developed. It is important to develop a critique of the strongest form of postracialism, becaus…
Post-Black, Old Black
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Race, Rehabilitated - Redux
Race, Rehabilitated - Redux' explores the metaphysics of passing as a propadeutic to the interdisciplinary practice of critical race theory. Racial metaphysics asks whether races and racial identities exist, what they might be if they do exist, and what race-talk refers to if these things do not exist. Arguments that seek to deny racial categories any role in serious social analysis - arguments of the sort delivered by literary theorist Walter Be…
So Black and Blue: Response to Rudinow
Appiah’s Uncompleted Argument: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Reality of Race
Etude du debat metaphysique et moral sur l'existence des races opposant la these eliminativiste de K. A. Appiah a la these socio-historique de W.E.B. Du Bois. Interrogeant le fondement ontologique des institutions et pratiques raciales, l'A. mesure les consequences de l'affirmation de la non-existence des races du point de vue de l'ethique de l'identification raciale et de la pragmatique du racialisme biologique
Silence and Sympathy: Dewey’s Whiteness
JOHN DEWEY INTRODUCES AN EDITION of Claude McKay’s Selected Poems by saying, more or less, that there is nothing he can say.1 He begins with a lament about how commentary and praise seem “impertinent” and “idle,” and he ends, a few paragraphs later, by confessing that the poet’s depiction of life under white supremacy leaves white men able to express only “humiliated sympathy.” My first encounter-my first several, actually-with this text left me …
We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity
Post-Black, Old Black
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
A Future for Africana (Post-)Analytic Philosophy
Recent years have brought substantial changes in the conditions that motivate and frame the work of Africana philosophy. Racist domination has largely given way to racialized hegemony; formal colonization has largely given way to neoliberal trade, aid, and debt regimes; and towering revolutionaries and reformers continue to give way to younger generations of politicians, scholars, artists, and activists. In light of these and other developments, …
Black Aesthetics
This article introduces the preoccupations and themes that define the study and practice of black aesthetics. It presents a provisional sketch of a field that has long been recognized in other humanities disciplines, but that is only now gaining wide notice in academic philosophy. This sketch emphasizes the aspects of the field that invite specifically philosophic scrutiny, while touching lightly on specific artworks, critical literatures and his…
Race, Rehabilitated - Redux
Race, Rehabilitated - Redux' explores the metaphysics of passing as a propadeutic to the interdisciplinary practice of critical race theory. Racial metaphysics asks whether races and racial identities exist, what they might be if they do exist, and what race-talk refers to if these things do not exist. Arguments that seek to deny racial categories any role in serious social analysis - arguments of the sort delivered by literary theorist Walter Be…
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
This chapter contains sections titled: The Person The Social Context The Intellectual Context The Work Impact and Assessment Bibliography
Race Problems, Unknown Publics, Paralysis, and Faith
Context and Complaint: On Racial Disorientation
Taking Postracialism Seriously: From Movement Mythology to Racial Formation
This essay reconsiders the prospects for postracialist discourse. Critics tend not to take seriously enough the strongest case that can be made for viewing contemporary U.S. racial politics through the postracial lens. As a result, some important criticisms-the ones that survive postracialism's reformulation in these stronger terms-have yet to be fully developed. It is important to develop a critique of the strongest form of postracialism, becaus…
Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics
BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics. Paul C. Taylor. "Combining a background in Anglo-American aesthetics with a deep knowledge of black expressive culture, and ramified by a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary mastery of cultural studies across the humanities, Paul Taylor's Black is Beautiful succeeds in situating black aesthetics in a strikingly original way, one which is not only valuable in itself, but also commendably reinvigorat…
Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics
On the Very Idea of a Philosophical Culture: Or, The American Evasion of Politics
Carlin Romano has set himself the task of rebranding both the United States and philosophy. His United States is a distinctly philosophical enterprise, and philosophy in this United States is much more democratic and diverse than a mostly white, mostly male, elite-aspirant academic discipline. I endorse a great deal of the argument that supports Romano’s story. I admire his determination to re-read the history and sociology of philosophy, to trea…
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Race
Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race
Marital Shade: Studies in Intersectional Invisibility
As legal scholar Ariela Dubler notes, the institution of marriage casts a long shadow across contemporary social life. Much more than a way of conferring social sanction on sexual and romantic relationships, marriage unlocks a wide range of social goods, from inheritance rights to medical records access. In addition, though, and as generations of feminists, queer activists, and others have made clear, this institution is part of a wider network o…
Dark Futures: Toward a Philosophical Archaeology of Hope
Early in World War I, Virginia Woolf wrote these words: ‘The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be [...]’. It is tempting to assume that darkness simply hides the unknown and the threatening. It is more challenging to think of it as Woolf did: rich with possibility in even the most desperate times. We live in what many would readily describe as dark times. These times have brought (among much else) a once-in-a-ce…
Beauty, Politics, Practice: Balfour on Morrison on Democracy
Beauty, Politics, Practice:Balfour on Morrison on Democracy Paul C. Taylor (bio) 1 "Does it do Morrison a disservice to read her as a political thinker?"1 This question organizes Lawrie Balfour's contribution to the ground-breaking African American Political Thought volume edited by Rogers and Turner, and it remains on her mind in the more recent, equally insightful essay, "More Beautiful Than Democracy." The earlier piece acknowledges the risks …
Tree Meet Fence: Dewey, Dorchester Projects , and the Philosophy of Socially Engaged Art
Despite resisting easy translation into the cadences of analytic philosophy, certain parts of John Dewey's thought have something important to offer analytic aesthetics. One way to show this is to consider how an account that makes no reference to Dewey might have been benefited from taking on board some of the insights from Art as Experience. To that end, this essay will consider Vid Simoniti's recent study of socially engaged art, with a partic…
Ecce Negro: Como se tornar um teórico da raça
Este artigo examina as interseções entre a filosofia nietzschiana e o pensamento afro-americano, com foco especial na teoria racial. O autor relata seu contato pessoal com as obras de Nietzsche e como isso influenciou seu desenvolvimento filosófico, levando-o ao pragmatismo e ao Afrocentrismo. Ele se envolve criticamente com a abordagem afrocêntrica de Molefi Asante, destacando seus pontos fortes na recuperação da agência africana, mas também cri…
Breadth and Depth, Perfectionism and Paradox: Reading Black Politics by a Darkened Light
Rogers’s remarkable book manages to be both deep and broad, both provocative and persuasive; it attends with equal care to the burdens of historical reflection and of theoretical investigation. I’ve learned a great deal from the text, and expect to keep learning as I return to it over time. One admirable feature is the ease with which it explores particularism while resisting parochialism. Rogers examines a distinctively black tradition of politi…
Sociology (14 works) · Race, History, and American Society (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (6 works)