Beyond the Pale

How should Augustine Aquinas Bonhoeffer Kant Nietzsche and Plato be read today in light of postcolonial theory and twenty-first-century understandings? This book offers a reader-friendly introduction to Christian liberationist ethics by having scholars from the margins explore how questions of race and gender should be brought to bear on twenty-four classic ethicists and philosophers. Each short chapter gives historical background for the thinker describes that thinker's most important contributions then raises issues of concern for women and persons of color.Contributors include George (Tink) Tinker Asante U. Todd Traci West Darryl Trimiew Ada María Isasi-Díaz Robyn Henderson-Espinoza and many others.