Category Archives: LOGIC , METHODOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY
TIME , SPACE, SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND RACE: A DU BOISIAN INTERVENTION
Existentialists have interrogated the modern European concept of time and progress. The natural sciences from relativity theory and quantum mechanics to evolutionary biology and population genetics, interrogate time as well. A very significant contribution to this is Stephen Jay Gould’s … Continue reading
METAPHYSICS OF THE CONCRETE
In a 1956 letter to Herbert Aptheker (1956:/1978:394) concerning Aptheker’s recently published book History and Reality, Du Bois once again talks about his philosophy. In this letter he anticipates what he said in the Autobiography concerning philosophy, history and sociology. … Continue reading
Du Boisian Epistemic Ruptures
Epistemic ruptures are transgressions of the philosophical, theoretical, civilizational and practical modalities of knowing. They challenge existing worldviews. They often change the ideological conditions of our very beings. Epistemic ruptures can lead to revolutionary changes in societies and the logics … Continue reading
W.E.B DUBOIS: SCHOLAR, SCIENTIST AND ACTIVISTS
NOTE: This essay was written in 1997. It was my effort to define W.E.B Du Bois as a central figure in the history of social science. But also to show how his social science breakthroughs were connected to activism and … Continue reading
