PHILOSOPHER OF THE WEEK
Today's Philosopher is Angela Davis. Angela Yvonne Davis born on the 24th of January, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama. She studied at Brandi's university and the University of Frankfurt. Studying under the Philosopher, Herbert Marcuse, an adherent of the Frankfurt, Davis became increasingly engaged in far-left politics.
She is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic and author. She is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). She writes extensively on class, gender, race, and the U.S. prison system. Because of her political opinions and despite an excellent record as an instructor at the university’s Los Angeles campus, the California Board of Regents in 1970 refused to renew her appointment as lecturer in philosophy. In 1991, however, Davis became a professor in the field of the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 1995, amid much controversy, she was appointed a presidential chair. She became professor emerita in 2008.
Her works include:
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