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Lewis Gordon is known as a leading scholar in black existentialism and as the founder of postcolonial phenomenology, also called Africana phenomenology. He is particularly noted for his extensive work on the philosophy of Frantz Fanon and W. E. B. Du Bois, and for his concept of disciplinary decadence and the teleological suspension of disciplinarity.
Lewis Gordon received his Doctor of Philosophy degree with distinction from Yale University in 1993. He had previously completed his Master of Arts and Master of Philosophy degrees there in 1991, and his undergraduate education at Lehman College, CUNY, in 1984.
Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism, published in 1995, is an existential phenomenological study of anti-black racism. Gordon argues that bad faith is a denial of human reality and a flight from social responsibility, and he introduces two original concepts: bad faith as an effort to disarm evidence and as a war against social reality.
The Center for Afro-Jewish Studies, founded by Lewis Gordon, is the only research center of its kind. It focuses on developing reliable sources of information on African and African Diasporic Jewish or Hebrew-descended populations. Gordon argues that Jews are a creolized, mixed-race people whose roots extend to culturally mixed Egyptian and African origins.
Lewis Gordon argues that Western thought has tied reason to instrumental rationality in a way that produces an antiblack conceptual geography, excluding most of humanity from reason's domain. Shifting the geography of reason, he contends, requires opposing forms of intellectual decadence that treat any human community as incapable of manifesting reason.
Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age, published in 1997, won the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America. The book introduced Gordon's racial-gender-sex-sexuality matrix and examined the aesthetic dimensions of everyday life as a condition for genuine emancipation.