The practice of philosophy has led to both emancipation and exclusion in society. Questions around how philosophy should be practiced, who should engage in it, and with which issues philosophy should deal are subject to debate and controversy. This volume is dedicated to the special role of epistemic injustice and violence in philosophy. By shedding light on the inherent unjust structures of academic philosophy, the contributors to this volume help to better understand this powerful tool that impacts the academic landscape as well as individual and collective ways of being. From graphic novel to philosophical essay, they design a concept of transformative philosophy and offer various entry points to the conversation.

Lena Schützle, born in 1991, works as a research associate at the chair for intercultural social transformation and the Center for Social and Development Studies at Hochschule für Philosophie München. Her research focuses on the phenomenology of compassion, epistemic injustice and violence, and transformative research.

Barbara Schellhammer (Dr. phil.), geb. 1977, ist Professorin für Intercultural Social Transformation mit Schwerpunkt Kulturphilosophie und Anthropologie an der Hochschule für Philosophie München. Sie leitet das dort angesiedelte Zentrum für Globale Fragen und forscht zur interkulturellen Philosophie insbes. mit indigenen Traditionen, sowie zur Phänomenologie des Fremden.

Cara-Julie Kather is a feminist theorist and writer. She works in academic as well as literary modes and all the inbetweens and beyonds to these categories and conducted research on mathematics as a technique of thinking as part of her PhD at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. She works on questions of sexual violence, autistic womanhood, and neurodiverse sexuality in Montreal. Her work generally centers the diversity of modes of thinking and living and the interwovenness of ontological and epistemic matters in relation to questions of violence.

»There has been a fervently critical movement of academic decolonization against Ivory-Tower academic philosophy, erected on the so-called foundation of impeccably unencumbered reason. This anthology is one of the latest incarnations of this critical trend, but its manifestation is appreciably far more unconventional both in its tenor and vehicle.«

(Prof. Bijoy H. Boruah, Indian Institute of Technology Jammu)