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DESCRIPTION:Join esteemed scholars Nahum Dimitri Chandler, Judith Butler, and Robert 
 Gooding-Williams for a rare evening of discussion and philosophical 
 exploration on the works and life \nof W. E. B. Du Bois.\n\nBOOK: “Beyond 
 This Narrow Now” Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois" \nby author, 
 Nahum Dimitri Chandler (pub. Duke University Press)\n\nDiscussion Host: 
 City Lights Booksellers\n\nDate & Time: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 @ 6:00 
 pm PST\n\nRSVP: 
 https://citylights.com/events/nahum-dimitri-chandler-with-judith-butler-and-robert-gooding-williams/\n\n\nIn 
 “Beyond This Narrow Now” Nahum Dimitri Chandler shows that the premises 
 of \nW. E. B. Du Bois’s thinking at the turn of the twentieth century 
 stand as fundamental references for the whole itinerary of his thought. 
 \n\nOpening with a distinct approach to the legacy of Du Bois, Chandler 
 proceeds through a series of close readings of Du Bois’s early essays, 
 previously unpublished or seldom studied, with discrete annotations of The 
 Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches of 1903, elucidating and 
 elaborating basic epistemological terms of his thought. \n\nWith 
 theoretical attention to how the African American stands as an example of 
 possibility for Du Bois and renders problematic traditional ontological 
 thought, Chandler also proposes that Du Bois’s most well-known 
 phrase—“the problem of the color line”—sustains more conceptual 
 depth than has yet been understood, with pertinence for our accounts of 
 modern systems of enslavement and imperial colonialism and the incipient 
 moments of modern capitalization. \n\nChandler’s work exemplifies a more 
 profound engagement with Du Bois, demonstrating that he must be re-read, 
 appreciated, and studied anew as a philosophical writer and thinker 
 contemporary to our time.\n\n\nPANEL:\n\nNahum Dimitri Chandler is 
 Professor in the School of Humanities at the University of California, 
 Irvine, author of X: The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought and 
 editor of The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth 
 Century: The Essential Early Essays by W. E. B. Du Bois.\n\nJudith Butler 
 is a philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political 
 philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, queer theory, 
 and literary theory. In 1993, Butler began teaching at the University of 
 California, Berkeley, where they have served, beginning in 1998, as the 
 Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the 
 Program of Critical Theory. They are also the Hannah Arendt Chair at the 
 European Graduate School. Judith Butler is the author of numerous books. 
 These include: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity 
 (1990) and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (1993). 
 Their most recent book is The Force of Non-Violence from Verso 
 Press.\n\nRobert Gooding-Williams is the M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni 
 Council Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of Philosophy 
 and of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia 
 University, where he is the Director of the Center for Race, Philosophy, 
 and Social Justice. He is currently at work on two projects, a book on Du 
 Bois’s political aesthetics and a study of the political thought of 
 Martin Delany. Gooding-Williams was elected to the American Academy of Arts 
 and Sciences in 2018.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/28/18847625.php
SUMMARY:W. E. B. Du Bois: Early 20th Century Philosopher & Writer as Contemporary to Our Time
LOCATION:Online event via Zoom
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/28/18847625.php
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