Lewis, J (2017) “Taking care of the philosophy”: Frederick Douglass’s phenomenological interventions. In: American Literature and the Philosophical, 23-25 March 2017, Paris, France.
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Recently, scholarship on Frederick Douglass has begun to turn to the task of, in Maurice Lee’s words, ‘recovering Douglass’s philosophy’. Often focussing on Douglass’s second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom, critics argue that Douglass's earlier narratives ‘restrain or defer his speculative ambitions’, and find in the later text a thinker ‘who discovers … philosophy’ (Lee, 99). In this paper I suggest that this is too limited an idea of what can count as philosophy and demonstrate how Douglass’s apparently ‘simple’ narrations of his own corporeal experience become themselves philosophical interventions.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Divisions: | School of Creative and Cultural Arts |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Oct 2026 16:06 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Oct 2026 16:06 |
| URN: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/17999 |
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