Leonard Harris
Professor
// Philosophy
Faculty
Professor
// SIS // Philosophy and Literature
Faculty
Affiliated Faculty // SIS // African-American Studies
Affiliated Faculty // SIS // American Studies
PhD, Cornell University
Office Information
Specialization
American Philosophy, Continental European Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy
Selected Publications
Book
Alain L. Locke: Biography of a Philosopher. Co-authored with C. Molesworth. University of Chicago Press, 2008.Edited Books
American Philosophies. Co-edited with A. S. Waters and S. Pratt. Blackwell, 2002.Racism. Humanity Press, 1999.The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke. Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.The Philosophy of Alain Locke, Harlem Renaissance and Beyond. Temple University Press, 1989.Philosophy Born of Struggle: Afro-American Philosophy from 1917. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 1984.
Book Chapters
“Universal Human Liberation and Community: Pixley Kalsaka Seme and Alain L. Locke.” In Perspectives in African Philosophy: An Anthology on ‘Problematics of an African Philosophy: Twenty Years After (1976-1996’, eds. C. Sumner and S. W. Yohannes, 150-159. Addis Ababa University Printing Press, 2002.“Honor, Eunuchs, and the Postcolonial Subject.” In Postcolonial African Philosophy, ed. E. C. Eze, 252-259. Blackwell Publishing Company, 1997.Articles
“The Great Debate: Alain L. Locke vs. W.E.B. Du Bois,” Philosophia Africana 7 (2004): 13-37.
“Tolerance, réconciliation et groupes,” Guerre et Réconciliation, Jounée de la Philosophie àl Unesco (2003): 59-94.
Selected Honors
University Distinguished Visiting Professor, William Paterson University (2002-2003).
Non-resident Fellow, Harvard University, 2001-2002
Fulbright Scholar, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda (1998-1999).
Visiting Scholar, King’s College, Cambridge (Summer 1984).
Portia Washington Pittman Fellow, Tuskegee Institute (1980-1981).
Work in Progress
Book: The Great Debate: Alain L. Locke vs. W.E.B. Du Bois.
Edited book: Collected Works of Alain L. Locke.
Articles: “Cosmopolitanism,” “The Great Debate: Alain L. Locke vs. William James”.
