Postcolonial African Philosophy A Critical Reader

Name: Postcolonial African Philosophy A Critical Reader
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ISBN: 9780631203407

ISBN-10: 0631203400

ISBN-13: 9780631203407

Edition: 1997

Authors: Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, Emmanuel C. Eze

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Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader sets out a timely and powerful agenda for contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean, and African American philosophy.

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List price: $56.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/31/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 388
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.10" long x 1.21" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Notes on Contributors


Introduction: Philosophy and the (Post)colonial




Africa and Modern Scientific Reason



Philosophy, Culture, and Technology in the Postcolonial




Is Modern Science an Ethnoscience? Rethinking Epistemological Assumptions




African Philosophy and Modernity




Africa and Modern Philosophic Reason



The Color of Reason: The Idea of "Race" in Kant's Anthropology




The Critique of Eurocentrism and the Practice of African Philosophy




Critic of Boers or Africans? Arendt's Treatment of South Africa in The Origins of Totalitarianism




Rebuilding Bridges



African Philosophy's Challenge to Continental Philosophy




Understanding African Philosophy from a Non-African Point of View: An Exercise in Cross-cultural Philosophy




Alterity, Dialogue, and African Philosophy




The Politics of the "Postcolonial"



Tragic Dimensions of our Neocolonial "Postcolonial" World




Honor, Eunuchs, and the Postcolonial Subject




Postphilosophy, Politics, and "Race"




African Philosophy and the Postcolonial: Some Misleading Abstractions about "Identity"




Thoughts for a Postcolonial Future



Democracy and Consensus in African Traditional Politics: A Plea for a Non-party Polity




Democracy or Consensus? A Response to Wiredu




Of the Good Use of Tradition: Keeping the Critical Perspective in African Philosophy




Toward a Critical Theory of Postcolonial African Identities



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