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SUMMARY:Ato Quayson: "The Genesis of Doubt: From Anton Wilhelm Amo to Ghana
 ’s Democracy"
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will adopt the life and work of Anton Wilhelm Amo 
 as the take-off point for reflecting on the genesis of doubt and its uses 
 in society and politics. It will be shown through and interpretation of va
 rious sources from philosophy and literature that doubt has many modes of 
 articulation\, partly in relation to established protocols of reasoning\, 
 but also with respect to aesthetic objects and to shared communal values. 
 It will be shown that in philosophy doubt is elevated to a cardinal method
 ological principle regarding the interrogation of premises\, and that this
  interrogation forms the primary scaffolding for the construction of argum
 ents in all branches of the discipline. In literature\, on the other hand\
 , doubt is expressed in relation to affect and consciousness\, the primary
  mode relating to the rejection of dominant norms of being in society.\\r\
 \nAto Quayson is a distinguished professor specializing in African Americ
 an Studies and English Literature and is the chair of the Department of Af
 rican and African American Studies at Stanford University.
X-ALT-DESC:<p>This lecture will adopt the life and work of Anton Wilhelm Am
 o as the take-off point for reflecting on the genesis of doubt and its use
 s in society and politics. It will be shown through and interpretation of 
 various sources from philosophy and literature that doubt has many modes o
 f articulation\, partly in relation to established protocols of reasoning\
 , but also with respect to aesthetic objects and to shared communal values
 . It will be shown that in philosophy doubt is elevated to a cardinal meth
 odological principle regarding the interrogation of premises\, and that th
 is interrogation forms the primary scaffolding for the construction of arg
 uments in all branches of the discipline. In literature\, on the other han
 d\, doubt is expressed in relation to affect and consciousness\, the prima
 ry mode relating to the rejection of dominant norms of being in society.</
 p>\n<p>Ato Quayson&nbsp\;is a distinguished professor specializing in Afri
 can American Studies and English Literature and is the chair of the Depart
 ment of African and African American Studies at Stanford University.</p>
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