Postcolonial African Philosophy A Critical Reader

Author : Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631203391
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader written by Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1997-02-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader sets out a timely and powerful agenda for contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean, and African American philosophy.

Author : Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631203377
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Philosophy written by Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1998-02-12 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together canonical philosophical texts from African, African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black European thinkers, this major new anthology is designed to serve both as a textbook and as the authoritative reference volume in Africana philosophical and cultural studies.

Author : Lewis Gordon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1557868956
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fanon written by Lewis Gordon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1996-08-30 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wide range of disciplines represented here enables the volume to stand as a contextualizing work in Fanon studies. It contains new original essays on Africana philosophy, the human sciences, dialectical humanism, women of color studies, neocolonial and postcolonial studies, violence, and tragedy.

Author : Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822341956
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Reason written by Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical argument that rationality is based on, or produced from, difference, and is not only worth retaining but necessary in a culturally diverse world.

Author : Emmanuel C. Eze
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135774676
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Achieving Our Humanity written by Emmanuel C. Eze and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achieving Our Humanity explores a postracial future through a philosophical analysis of the social, cultural, economic and political experiences of race in the past and what this might mean for our present and, most importantly, our future.

Author : Aretha Phiri
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498571255
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities written by Aretha Phiri and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing philosophy’s traditional influence on—and literature’s creative stimulus for—sociopolitical discourses, imaginations, and structures, African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-readingthe Canon, edited by Aretha Phiri, probes the cross-referential, interdisciplinary relationships between African literature and African philosophy. The contributors write within the broader context of renewed interest in and concerns around epistemological decolonization and to advance African scholarly transformation . This volume argues that, in their convergent ideological and imaginative attempts to articulate an African conditionality, African philosophy and literature share overlapping concerns and aspirations. In this way, this book engages and examines the intersectional canons of these disciplines in order to determine their intra-continental epistemological transformative possibilities within broader, global societal explorations of the current moment of decolonization. Where much of the scholarship on African philosophy has focused on addressing issues associated with the postcolonial task of African self-assertion in the face of or against Euro-modernist hegemony, this innovative book project shifts the focus and broadens the scope away from merely discoursing with the global North by mapping out how philosophy and literature can be viewed as mutually enriching disciplines within and for Africa.

Author : Emmanuel Bueya
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498542913
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stability in Postcolonial African States written by Emmanuel Bueya and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the instability of the African postcolonial state and demonstrates that such a fundamental crisis can be solved only through discourses and practices that are designed beyond the Westphalian model of the modern state and out of the neo-patrimonialistic system of African governance. The challenge of instability will not be overcome by rebuilding the African nation-state undermined by social contradictions and complex emergencies; rather stability will be achieved by opening a public space of agonistic democracy that is supported mainly by an overlapping consensus on justice. The author argues that by reading critically, the African philosophy of solidarity is contradicted by structural violence and inequality. The political instrumentalization of kinship provokes the exclusion of minorities, the marginalization of masses, and the instability of the entire society. Governance is reduced to mere conflict management. The solution of legitimate violence becomes another version of the problem of institutional incapacity. The author's contention is people are the ultimate and permanent agents of stability, and the ground of stability must not be a strong state, but the politics of reciprocity and union among people that implies a sense of justice in the power sharing and in the decision making process.

Author : P.H. Coetzee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135884196
Total Pages : 813 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The African Philosophy Reader written by P.H. Coetzee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into eight sections, each with introductory essays, the selections offer rich and detailed insights into a diverse multinational philosophical landscape. Revealed in this pathbreaking work is the way in which traditional philosophical issues related to ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology, for instance, take on specific forms in Africa's postcolonial struggles. Much of its moral, political, and social philosophy is concerned with the turbulent processes of embracing modern identities while protecting ancient cultures.

Author : Tsenay Serequeberhan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135882193
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hermeneutics of African Philosophy written by Tsenay Serequeberhan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermeneutics is a crucial but neglected perspective in African philosophy. Here, Tsenay Serequeberhan engages post-colonial African literature and the ideas of the African liberation struggle with critically-used insights from the European philosophical tradition. Continuing the work of Theophilus Okere and Okonda Okolo, this book attempts to overcome the debate between ethnophilosophy and professional philosophy, demonstrating that the promise of African philosophy lies with the critical development of the African hermeneutical perspective.

Author : Grivas Muchineripi Kayange
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031475984
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meaning of Justice in African Philosophy written by Grivas Muchineripi Kayange and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the meaning of justice in African political philosophy, building on the use-theoretical approach. Currently, most of the philosophical works in this context advocate for a communal interpretation of the meaning of justice, such as the 'relational theory of justice' and 'Ubuntu justice as fairness.' The author argues that this foundation of justice in the community undermines the self, which is a major problem with these theories. As an attempt to go beyond communitarianism in African thought, the book recognizes other philosophical frameworks for elaborating the meaning of justice in ordinary people's experience, such as vitalism, theism, ubuntuism, and semantic framework. The author opts for a reconstructed ubuntu-based theory of the meaning of justice that reflects the traditional African experience and recuperates 'valuing self-existence' and 'valuing other-existence' as its foundations. The book further identifies the centrality of rights in defining justice in traditional African communities.