Background
Lewis Ricardo Gordon was born on May 12, 1962 in Jamaica and grown up in the Bronx, New York, United States. He is the son of Lewis Calwood Gordon and Yvonne Patria Garel (Solomon) Gordon.
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1995
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1995
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1995
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1997
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2000
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2009
Lewis Ricardo Gordon was born on May 12, 1962 in Jamaica and grown up in the Bronx, New York, United States. He is the son of Lewis Calwood Gordon and Yvonne Patria Garel (Solomon) Gordon.
Lewis was educated at Evander Childs High School.
Gordon received Bachelor of Arts degree in 1984, graduating from Lehman College, the City University of New York. Later, he continued his studies and in 1988 attained Master of Arts degree from the same college.
Thee years later, in 1991, the philosopher got his Master of Philosophy and Master of Arts degrees, graduating from Yale University. In 1993 he obtained Doctor of Philosophy degree with distinction, finishing the same university.
Gordon started his career as a social studies teacher in 1985 at Herbert H. Lehman High School in New York, where he also founded The Second Chance Program. Lewis held this position till 1989. The following year he started to serve as a teaching fellow in philosophy and classics at Yale University in New Haven, a post he held till 1993.
Lewis Gordon started to work as an adjunct professor of philosophy at University of Hartford in 1992. The following year he was appointed an adjunct assistant professor in Lehman Scholars Program at City University of New York.
Beginning from 1993 to 1995 Lewis served as an assistant professor of philosophy and African American studies at Purdue University in West Lafayette. Also, he held the same position at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis in summer 1994. Two years later he returned to Purdue University in West Lafayette.
The same year, in 1996, Gordon was appointed a visiting professor of Afro-American studies and religion at Brown University. The following year, he became an associate professor.
Since 1997 he has been editing the journal Radical Philosophy Review.
In 2016 the philosopher started to serve as a writer-in-residence at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London.
Currently, Lewis Gordon is a professor of philosophy with affiliations in Judaic studies, Caribbean and Latino/a studies, Asian and Asian American studies at University of Connecticut. He also serves as a visiting professor at Toulouse University in France.
Lewis Gordon is one of the leading scholars in black existentialism. He is also known as the founder of postcolonial phenomenology and the leading proponent of Africana phenomenology which has enabled him to make a mark in Fanon Studies. Lewis was able to develop postcolonial phenomenology, which he sometimes refers to as Africana phenomenology or de-colonial phenomenology, through making a series of important innovations to Husserlian and Sartrian phenomenologies.
The philosopher has founded the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies.
For Lewis, existentialism is a vital tool in the project of developing a new humanities and new social theory, ones that can interrogate their Eurocentrism and base themselves more fully on the experiences of diverse peoples. Moreover, he argues that existentialism is critical for the development of African-American thought as well as for an analysis of racism in everyday life.
Gordon rejects notions of disembodied consciousness (which he argues are forms of bad faith) and articulates a theory of the body-in-bad-faith. He also rejects authenticity discourses. Lewis sees them as trapped in expectations of sincerity, which also is a form of bad faith. He proposes, instead, critical good faith, which he argues requires a respect for evidence and accountability in the social world, a world of intersubjective relations.
Lewis is a member of the following associations: American Philosophical Association, Radical Philosophy Association, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, North American Sartre Society, Caribbean Studies Association and International Association for Philosophy and Literature.
Lewis Gordon married Lisa C., a researcher and teacher, on April 25, 1987. After divorce, Lewis married Jane Anna Gordon. The couple has one child - Elijah Gordon.
The philosopher has two children from the first marriage - Mathieu A. and Jennifer S.
