Insurrectionist Ethics: Boldly Confronting Oppression

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Dr. Lee A. McBride III, Associate Professor in the College of Wooster’s Department of Philosophy, will give a public lecture on his work, based on the second chapter of his book with the working title, Ethics and Insurrection: Boldly Confronting Oppression.  Of the chapter, he writes: "I introduce insurrectionist ethics as a response to oppression. In this piece, I offer a tenable account of oppression, and discuss several ways oppression manifests in the world – sex-based, class-based, race-based, sexuality-based, etc. I articulate the central features of insurrectionist ethics, then argue that insurrection of some sort is needed in the face of oppression. I discuss violence and what it would mean to be non-violent to a clearly oppressive situation."

Hosts: A Jerry Jackson Lecture in the Humanities presented by the Dept. of Philosophy & Religion, The Honors College, Intercultural Affairs, College of Arts & Sciences, and the Chief Diversity Office.

Degree Plus: Cultural Responsiveness.

Bio: Lee A. McBride III is associate professor of philosophy at The College of Wooster (Ohio). He was the 2018 D’Angelo Chair in the Humanities at St. John’s University (NY) – a visiting endowed chair. McBride received his Ph.D. from Purdue University (2006) and specializes in American philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of race. Recent publications include: “Culture, Acquisitiveness, and Decolonial Philosophy” (Decolonizing American Philosophy, forthcoming); “Race, Multiplicity, and Impure Coalitions of Resistance” (Philosophizing the Americas: An Inter-American Discourse, forthcoming); “Racial Imperialism and Food Traditions” (The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics, 2018); “Anger and Approbation” (Moral Psychology of Anger, 2018); “New Descriptions, New Possibilities” (Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2018); “Leftist Democratic Politics” (Jahrbuch Praktische Philosophie in globaler Perspektive / Yearbook Practical Philosophy in a Global Perspective, 2017); “Insurrectionist Ethics and Racism” (The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race, 2017). McBride is currently working on two books, both under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing – a monograph (viz., Ethics and Insurrection: Boldly Confronting Oppression) and an edited collection of Leonard Harris’s philosophical work (viz., Leonard Harris: Selected Writings).