William Paris

William Paris is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is also an Associate Editor for the journal Critical Philosophy of Race. He is one of the co-hosts of What’s Left of Philosophy? His research focuses on history of African American philosophy, critical theory, 20th century continental philosophy, and political philosophy. He is the author of Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation (Oxford University Press). He has published on critical theory and self-emancipation, Frantz Fanon and gender, Sylvia Wynter's phenomenology of imagination, and C.L.R. James and Hannah Arendt. He has also published articles on subjects concerning critical theory and utopian consciousness as well as a defense of the explanatory work of critical theory vis-à-vis race in Puncta and Critical Philosophy of Race. He has recently published an article in the New German Critique on critical theory and self-emancipation.