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Disentangling Consciencism
Essays on Kwame Nkrumah's Philosophy
Häftad, 2018
821 kr
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Kwame Nkrumah is globally recognized as a foremost pan-Africanist strategist and statesman. He is less widely acknowledged as a philosopher, in spite of his considerable philosophical training, seminal contribution to African political theory, and incisive critique of the ethics of international …
Discourse on African Philosophy
A New Perspective on Ubuntu and Transitional Justice in South Africa
Inbunden, 2017
1138 kr
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Many have argued that ubuntu was a formative influence on the post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), South Africa’s famous transitional justice mechanism. A Discourse on African Philosophy: A New Perspective on Ubuntu and Transitional Justice in South Africa challenges and …
Discourse on African Philosophy
A New Perspective on Ubuntu and Transitional Justice in South Africa
Häftad, 2020
516 kr
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Many have argued that ubuntu was a formative influence on the post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), South Africa’s famous transitional justice mechanism. A Discourse on African Philosophy: A New Perspective on Ubuntu and Transitional Justice in South Africa challenges and …
Rule of Law and Governance in Indigenous Yoruba Society
A Study in African Philosophy of Law
Inbunden, 2016
1350 kr
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In The Rule of Law and Governance in Indigenous Yoruba Society, John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji has two main goals. The first is to provide an exploration of aspects of indigenous Yoruba philosophy of law. The second is to relate this philosophy of law to the Yoruba indigenous traditions of governance, …
African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities
Re-reading the Canon
Av Aretha Phiri
Häftad, 2022
593 kr
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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 …
Derrida and Africa
Jacques Derrida as a Figure for African Thought
Av Grant Farred
Inbunden, 2019
1390 kr
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Derrida and Africa takes up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, with a focus on Derrida’s writings specifically on Africa, which were influenced in part by his childhood in El Biar. From chapters that take up Derrida as Mother to contemplations on how to situate Derrida in …
Derrida and Africa
Jacques Derrida as a Figure for African Thought
Av Grant Farred
Häftad, 2022
593 kr
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Derrida and Africa takes up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, with a focus on Derrida’s writings specifically on Africa, which were influenced in part by his childhood in El Biar. From chapters that take up Derrida as Mother to contemplations on how to situate Derrida in …
Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person
Av Edwin Etieyibo, Polycarp Ikuenobe
Inbunden, 2020
1420 kr
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Ifeanyi Menkiti’s articulation of an African conception of personhood—especially in “Person and Community in African Traditional Thought” —has become very influential in African philosophy. Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person contributes to the debate in African philosophy on personhood by …
Afro-Communitarian Democracy
Inbunden, 2019
1208 kr
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In going beyond African socialism and consensual democracy’s use of communitarianism, Bernard Matolino demonstrates that there is a mode of understanding communitarianism that need not necessarily be traditionalist. It is from this ever-evolving communitarian notion that an African-rooted form of …
Partiality and Impartiality in African Philosophy
Av M. Molefe
Inbunden, 2021
1208 kr
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Partiality and Impartiality in African Philosophy fills the lacuna in African philosophy literature on the inherent tension between requirements of partiality (favoritism) and impartiality (equality). Motsamai Molefe deploys two strategies to philosophically resolve the tension between partiality …
Rethinking Sage Philosophy
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on and beyond H. Odera Oruka
Av Kai Kresse, Oriare Nyarwath
Inbunden, 2022
1419 kr
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Rethinking Sage Philosophy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on and beyond H. Odera Oruka discusses a variety of aspects of Henry Odera Oruka’s sage philosophy project, rethinking it with a view to current demands and recent debates in scholarship across several disciplines. Edited by Kai Kresse and …
Africa beyond Liberal Democracy
In Search of Context-Relevant Models of Democracy for the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2022
1419 kr
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A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleAfrica beyond Liberal Democracy: In Search of Context-Relevant Models of Democracy for the Twenty-First Century explores possible future trajectories of democratization on the continent. At the dawn of political independence in the late 1950s and …
Africa beyond Liberal Democracy
In Search of Context-Relevant Models of Democracy for the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2024
459 kr
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A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleAfrica beyond Liberal Democracy: In Search of Context-Relevant Models of Democracy for the Twenty-First Century explores possible future trajectories of democratization on the continent. At the dawn of political independence in the late 1950s and …
African Political and Economic Philosophy with Africapitalism
Concepts for African Leadership
Av Ephraim-Stephen Essien, Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere
Inbunden, 2024
1207 kr
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This book creates (on the one hand) and explores (on the other hand) philosophies of African development suitable for Black sub-Saharan African countries. As an academic discipline focused on thought informed by indigenous moral values among Black peoples in the sub-Saharan region, African …
On Mabogo P. More’s Extended Thought
Av Tendayi Sithole, Uchenna B. Okeja
Inbunden, 2026
1137 kr
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Mabogo P. More’s understanding of philosophical anthropology as the project that is concerned about the human question profoundly impacted how he accounted for the very idea of a black point of view. This book investigates how More’s extended thought generatively engages in themes like the name, …
Problematics of Enlightenment
Human Reason, North African Philosophy, and the Global South
Av Mourad Wahba, Uchenna B. Okeja
Inbunden, 2024
1038 kr
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In The Problematics of Enlightenment: Human Reason, North African Philosophy, and the Global South , Mourad Wahba explores the relevance of the philosophy of the Enlightenment to contemporary issues in Egypt and the Global South more generally. Wahba provides a historical account of the reception …
Menkiti’s Moral Man
Av Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe
Inbunden, 2022
1207 kr
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In Menkiti’s Moral Man, Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe offers an original interpretation of Ifeanyi Menkiti’s conception of person, one that has significant implications for his metaphysics and moral philosophy. Menkiti holds that one is not born a person but becomes a person in a linguistic and …
Beauty in African Thought
Critical Perspectives on the Western Idea of Development
Av Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1207 kr
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A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleBeauty in African Thought: A Critique of the Western Idea of Development investigates how the concept of beauty in African philosophy and related qualitative social sciences may contribute to a richer intercultural exchange on the idea of development. …
Well-Being in African Philosophy
Insights for a Global Ethics of Development
Av Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1207 kr
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Well-Being in African Philosophy: Insights for a Global Ethics of Development, edited by Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller, and Angela Roothaan, explores the notion of well-being in African and intercultural philosophy and its insights into global ethics of development. Drawing from …
Odera Oruka and the Right to a Human Minimum
An African Philosopher's Defense of Human Dignity and Environment
Inbunden, 2022
1066 kr
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Odera Oruka and the Human Minimum: An African Philosopher’s Defense of Human Dignity and Environment considers the work of Odera Oruka (1944–1995)—arguably one of the finest philosophers in Africa—by analyzing his major practical contribution to philosophy from a practical point of view. Odera …
African Philosophical Adventures
Av John Murungi
Inbunden, 2023
1066 kr
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African Philosophical Adventures presents African philosophy as a convergence wherein what is African, what is philosophy, and what is an adventure enter an inter-relational and reciprocal process, each giving birth to the others. Philosophy, whether African or non-African, is an open-ended …
Post-Colonial Reconstruction of Africa
Inbunden, 2024
1171 kr
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A Post-Colonial Reconstruction of Africa surveys the significant reconstruction work undertaken in the social and political organization of sub-Saharan African society in the decades following the colonial interruption and subjects these efforts to rigorous criticism in order to establish whether …
On Mabogo P. More’s Extended Thought
E-bok, 2026
1220 kr
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Mabogo P. More's understanding of philosophical anthropology as the project that is concerned about the human question profoundly impacted how he accounted for the very idea of a black point of view. This book investigates how More's extended thought generatively engages in themes like the name, …
Oral Philosophy of Orunmila
A Decolonial Interpretation
Inbunden, 2026
1207 kr
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Foregrounding the historical movements of decolonization in African intellectual traditions, this book argues that the Yorùbá knowledge system grounds philosophy, history, and religious studies in aiyé, the incomprehensible world.Saheed Adesumbo Bello explores Orúnmìlà—the ancient legendary Yorùbá …
Oral Philosophy of Orunmila
A Decolonial Interpretation
E-bok, 2026
1325 kr
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Foregrounding the historical movements of decolonization in African intellectual traditions, this book argues that the Yoruba knowledge system grounds philosophy, history, and religious studies in aiye, the incomprehensible world.Saheed Adesumbo Bello explores Orunmila-the ancient legendary Yoruba …
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Human Relationships
African Ethical Perspectives
Av Beatrice Okyere-Manu, Stephen Nkansah Morgan
Inbunden, 2027
1196 kr
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How can Ubuntu and other African ethical and philosophical frameworks shape human relationships in the age of artificial intelligence?Contributing to the global discourses on artificial intelligence (AI), this collection edited by Beatrice Okyere-Manu and Stephen Nkansah Morgan explores the …
