Dr. Norman Ajari
Lecturer in Francophone Black Studies

Contact details
- Email: norman.ajari@ed.ac.uk
Background
I am a French and American philosopher. Before becoming a Lecturer in Francophone Black Studies at the University of Edinburgh, I served as an Assistant Professor of philosophy at Villanova University, in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I specialize in the history of Francophone and Anglophone Black thought, social and political philosophy, Critical Race Theory and Black male studies. I am also an occasional art critic and political commentator.
My first book, Dignity or Death: Ethics and politics of race (Polity, 2022) developed a critique of continental philosophy from the perspective of the Black radical tradition. It is also available in French and Spanish. My second book, Noirceur: Race, genre, classe et pessimisme dans la pensée africaine-américaine au XXIe siecle (Divergences, 2022) reflects on the contemporary resurgence of a long tradition of Black radical pessimism under the guise of contemporary African-American intellectual movements such as Afropessimism and Black Male Studies.
Qualifications
Ph.D. (Philosophy): Université de Toulouse - Jean Jaures, 2015.
M.A. (Philosophy): Université de Toulouse - Jean Jaures, 2011.
B.A. (Communication studies): Université de Metz, 2009.
B.A. (Philosophy): Université du Luxembourg, 2009.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
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Phallicisme et abolition: Repenser la justice transformatrice a partir des Black Male Studies
(7 pages)
In:
Multitudes, pp. 87-93
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Dignity or Death: Ethics and Politics of Race
(240 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
En conversation avec la mort. Tommy J. Curry et les discours philosophiques de la masculinité noire
(15 pages)
In:
Itinéraires
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/itineraires.11430
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Née de la lutte: La philosophie africaine américaine face a la mort prématurée des Noirs
In:
Permanences Critiques, pp. 63-71
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment/debate (Published) -
Kant, Rousseau, Cugoano et la critique de l'esthétique européenne
(19 pages)
In:
Global18, vol. 2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34745/numerev_1766
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Noirceur: Race, genre, classe et pessimisme dans la pensée africaine-américaine au XXIe siecle
(250 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Les damnés du nomos de la terre: Carl Schmitt face à Lénine et le scandale de l’internationalisme
(19 pages)
In:
Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, vol. 25, pp. 160-179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5840/symposium20212518
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Populisme de gauche et conscience noire: Race, histoire et pluralisme après Laclau et Mouffe
In:
Philosophiques, vol. 48, pp. 93-114
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1077838ar
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
La Dignité ou la mort: Éthique et politique de la race
(324 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Nascida do desastre: Crítica da etnofilosofia, pensamento social e africanidades
In:
Ensaios Filosóficos, vol. 18, pp. 8-24
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)