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John H. McClendon

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John H. McClendon III is a professor in the department of philosophy at Michigan State University. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Kansas, and taught at Binghamton University, Eastern Illinois University, University of Illinois Champaign/Urbana, Bates College, and the University of Missouri before coming to Michigan State University. His areas of focus include African philosophy, marxist philosophy, philosophy of African-American studies, and the history of African-American philosophers.[1]

Contributions to philosophy

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McClendon is the editor of the American Philosophical Association newsletter, Philosophy and the Black Experience. He is an ex officio member of the Committee on Blacks in Philosophy—American Philosophical Association.[2] He has lectured widely throughout the country and abroad, and was the Charles Phelps Taft lecturer for the 35th anniversary of the University of Cincinnati's African-American Studies Department, the keynote speaker for Black History Month at Mississippi State University, and a faculty member for the Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute.[2]

Books

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McClendon is the author or coauthor of:

  • C. L. R. James's Notes on Dialectics: Left Hegelianism Or Marxism-Leninism? (Lexington Books, 2005)[3]
  • Beyond the White Shadow: Philosophy, Sports and the African American Experience (with Stephen Ferguson and Malik Simba, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2012)
  • Philosophy of Religion and the African American Experience: Conversations with my Christian Friends (Brill-Rodopi, 2017)[4]
  • African American Philosophers and Philosophy: An Introduction to the History, Concepts, and Contemporary Issues (with Stephen Ferguson, Bloomsbury, 2019)[5]
  • Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity: A Philosophical Appraisal (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)[6]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Michigan State University Philosophy Department/John McClendon accessed May 30, 2011.
  2. ^ a b Fayetteville University Documents Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine; accessed May 30, 2011.
  3. ^ Reviews of C. L. R. James's Notes on Dialectics: Paget Henry, The CLR James Journal, doi:10.5840/clrjames200713120; Peter Hudis, Socialism and Democracy, [1]; J. R. Kerr-Ritchie, J. African American History, JSTOR 20064184
  4. ^ Review of Philosophy of Religion and the African American Experience: Anthony Sean Neal, Black Theology, doi:10.1080/14769948.2018.1411757
  5. ^ Review of African American Philosophers and Philosophy: Kate Korycki, Ethnic and Racial Studies, doi:10.1080/01419870.2019.1707845
  6. ^ Review of Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity: Sameer Yadav, Faith and Philosophy, doi:10.37977/faithphil.2020.37.2.9