Postcolonial African Philosophy
A Critical Reader
1. Auflage Dezember 1996
388 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader sets out a timely and critical agenda for contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean, and African-American philosophy.
With many leading contributors, this collection of newly-commissioned work provides key coverage of the postcolonial and the postmodern; the critique of eurocentrism in philosophy; philosophy in post-independence Africa and post-civil rights black America; multi-culturalism; and inter-cultural dialogue between contemporary African and western philosophy in the academy. In addition, it includes important interventions on the historical, political, and cultural situations of Africa and America at the end of the twentieth century, and philosophy's role in this milieu.
Designed to complement Emmanuel Eze's Racist Enlightenment (1996) and African Philosophy: An Anthology (1997) also published by Blackwell, these volumes represent powerful new intervention in a fast developing area of study and research.
Chuckwudi Eze (Bucknell University).
1. Philosophy, Culture and Technology in the Postcolonial: Kwame
Gyekye (University of Ghana).
2. Is Modern Science a European System of Knowledge?: Sandra
Harding (University of Delaware).
3. African Philosophy and Modernity: Peter Amato (Fordham
University).
4. The Color of Reason: The Idea of Race in Kant's Anthropology:
Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (Bucknell University).
5. The Critique of Eurocentrism and the Practice of African
Philosophy: Tsenay Serequeberhan (Simmons College).
6. Critic of Boers or Africans? Arendt's Treatment of South
Africa in Origins of Totalitarianism: Gail Presby (Marist
College).
7. African Philosophy's Challenge to Continental Philosophy:
Robert Bernasconi (Memphis University).
8. Understanding African Philosophy from a Non-African Point of
View: An Exercise in Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Richard Bell
(College of Wooster).
9. Alterity, Dialogue, and African Philosophy: Bruce Janz
(Augustana University College).
10. Tragic Dimensions of our Neocolonial 'Postcolonial World':
Lewis Gordon (Purdue University).
11. Honor, Eunuchs, and the Postcolonial Subject: Leonard Harris
(Purdue University).
12. Post-Philosophy and the Post-Colonial: John Pittman (John
Jay College of Criminal Justice).
13. African Philosophy and the Post-Colonial: Some Misleading
Abstractions about 'Identity': D. A. Masolo (Antioch College).
14. Democracy and Consensus in African Traditional Politics: A
Plea for Non-Party Polity: Kwasi Wiredu (University of South
Florida).
15. Of the Good use of Tradition: Keeping the Critical
Perspective in African Philosophy: Jean-Marie Makang (University of
Maryland).
16. Toward a Critical Theory of African (Post) Colonial
Identities: Emmanuel Chuckwudi Eze (Bucknell University).
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anthology. It brings together some of the most stimulating texts of
African philosophy. Its ambitious effort will serve well all those
interested in African Studies and students and professionals of
philosophy in general." V. Y. Mudimbe, Stanford University
" Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze has assembled a collection of essays
that will be a most substantial contribution to making the case for
African philosophy. Not just by the persuasiveness of each
argument, but, as well, by virtue of each person who contributes to
the effort. One important effect will be to further the development
of African philosophy by moving the discussion well beyond the
potential danger of confinement within improper conceptions of
raciality not simply by attacking racialized thought, but via the
constitutive activities of the contributors. This collection is,
then, to be read and pondered in a number of respects in order to
appreciate fully the very important contribution it is. "
Professor Lucius Outlaw, Haverford College
