Leah Kalmanson
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first heard Mar 2021
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One thing I'll uh add to that listening to Monica talk.
And I was thinking about this the other day, is it one thing I wish we had said?
In the intro, right at the very beginning of the book, is that this is an introduction to world philosophies, right?
It is a practical guide to world philosophies, but it's not an easy one.
Um, and the reason is because there is no such thing, no such thing as an easy guide to world philosophies, that it is inevitably a vexed term.
Uh, learning about any of the kind of terms that we include within it.
uh takes you immediately into complicated territory.
Um everything leads to just from complexity to more complexity.
And I think that term, you know, indigenous philosophy is a is a case in point and that we really do think have to think about how that term
has been constructed as a site of solidarity um across cultures.
uh in in relation to the history of colonialism that has shaped such a category as as indigeneity, right?
And that it has been claimed um as a space of solidarity across different cultures um in discourse today and that there's so much exciting work coming out of that discourse.
But you know, like Monica said, to sort of frame it as
what is it is already putting us, I think, not only into epistemological but into maybe like ontological territory uh that we I I think throughout the writing of the book we're constantly resisting.
And that's probably why uh the book doesn't always feel like an easy, you know, guide practical guide um to world philosophies.
But nonetheless I think it is a practical guide to
walking through some very complex territory.
You know, I'll I'll throw something in here that I was thinking about the other day.
And it's the way that we, you know, we treat Plato as if he's like a living, breathing human being sitting next to us.
And we try to encourage our students to approach reading Plato uh as if they're reading something contemporary and relevant to their own lives.
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