Confronting the Enlightenment's mistakes | Kehinde Andrews full interview

In this interview Kehinde Andrews throws our ideas about the Enlightenment in question.

Should we cancel Aristotle?

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From Kant to Locke, we associate the enlightenment with a period of moving from dogmatic thinking to a period of searching for objective truth. However, is the Enlightenment really that value-free? Leading Black studies thinker Kehinde Andrews highlights that not only can we not ignore the racist works of the pioneers of the Enlightenment era, our very enlightenment values are entrenched in racist and dogmatic thinking.

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Kehinde Andrews is the first black studies professor in the UK, currently working at Birmingham City University. He is the director of the Centre for Critical Social Research, founder of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity, and co-chair of the UK Black Studies Association.

00:00 Intro
00:08 What did you mean by calling The Enlightenment “white identity politics”?
01:54 Is it possible to decolonise Kant?
04:50 Should we cancel Aristotle
06:30 Is it possible to understand texts in isolation,
or are they always bound to their context?
08:30 Is there a danger of losing something
by completely dismissing the canon?
10:00 Is the world in a constant state of psychosis?
11:52 Is belief in the monarchy a symptom of psychosis?
14:18 Is the current approach to dismantling racism misguided?
15:20 Are the current institutions tasked with the antiracism
effort capable of delivering results?
17:00 How should we go about creating new institutions?

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