bell hooks

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• CECommunal Embeddedness

  9 / 10
• TETrust in Experience

  8 / 10
• POPractical Orientation

  8 / 10
• VAVital Affirmation

  7 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Audre LordeFORGE

  The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. Difference is creative power.

• Glen CoulthardFORGE

  Red Skin, White Masks — Indigenous resurgence as anti-colonial.

• Anna Julia CooperFORGE

  A Voice from the South — Black women as the measure of any republic.

• RousseauFORGE

  Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Civilization corrupts. The general will.

• Adam SmithFORGE

  Theory of Moral Sentiments — the impartial spectator inside each of us.

• Enrique DusselFORGE

  Philosophy of Liberation — the colonial Other as ethical first.

Concepts where bell hooks sits in the conversation. Each links to a primer.

• Philosophy of love
  Is romantic love a feeling, a choice, a virtue, a contract — or something stranger than any of these?

Side-by-side with other philosophers, dimension by dimension.

• bell hooks VS Audre Lorde

Short exercises in the same tradition as bell hooks's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Premortem →

  Imagine the failure of your plan in vivid detail before you start.

• Steelmanning the opposite →

  Write the strongest possible version of the view you most reject.

• Switch sides →

  Argue both sides of a debate, alternating, until you no longer know which side you started on.