Robert Gooding-Williams is Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018 and in 2020 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2023, the Yale GSAS Alumni Association awarded Gooding-Williams the Wilbur Cross Medal, the highest honor that Yale GSAS bestows on alumni. His most recent book, Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W.E.B. Du Bois, is based on his Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures and was published by Columbia University Press in the spring of 2025.
Publications
Democracy and Beauty
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Copyright Date: 2025
In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright Date: 2011
Look, A Negro! Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics
Publisher: Routledge
Copyright Date: 2006
Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Copyright Date: 2001