Upcoming Events
Smith-Willson Lecture: Dr. Brad Elliott Stone
2017-2018 Smith-Willson Lecture
Dr. Brad Elliott Stone
Tuesday, October 10 | 4:00 p.m. | Wroten Hall
The Opposition to Oppression Is Prophecy
Brad Elliott Stone (Ph.D., University of Memphis) is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. He co-edited (with Jacob L. Goodson) a collection of essays under the title Rorty and the Religious: Christian Engagements with a Secular Philosopher (Cascade, 2012), and they co-edited a sequel volume together titled Rorty and the Prophetic: Jewish Engagements with a Secular Philosopher (Lexington, 2018). Dr. Stone has published journal articles in Philosophical Compass, The Pluralist, Theoforum, Contemporary Pragmatism, The Other Journal, The Xavier Zubiri Review and Foucault Studies. He has book chapters in The Blackwell Companion to Foucault, Foucault: Key Concepts, and Essays zur Jacques Derrida und Gianni Vattimo, Religion. He plans to spend part of his Sabbatical in Winfield, Kansas in Fall 2017 with the intention of completing two book projects: Introducing Prophetic Pragmatism (co-authored with Jacob L. Goodson) and a book on the Four Ds of 20th Century Philosophy: Destruction, Deconstruction, Demythologization, and Demystification.
