This module develops philosophical analysis in support of and in conversation with relationality. The orientation throughout is critical: what assumptions does a given philosophical tradition make about entities, relations, and knowledge? Where do those assumptions serve settler-colonial epistemology, and where do they come apart?
The primary traditions engaged are critical theory (particularly Foucault’s analysis of discourse, power-knowledge, and genealogical method), process philosophy (the tradition running from Whitehead through contemporary relational ontology), and analytic philosophy (engaged critically, for its tools and for the assumptions embedded in its methods). The formal claim of relationality — that relations are prior to entities — puts this work in dialogue with each of these traditions differently.
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- Relationality — the foundational project
- Sociology — applied social analysis
- Concepts of Philosophy
- Disciplines of Philosophy
- Philosophical Schools
- Philosophy Terms
- Philosophy Topics