Routledge Studies in African Philosophy – serie
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Africanizing African Legal Ethics
Av John Murungi
Inbunden, 2019
2315 kr
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This book is a philosophical inquiry into indigenous African legal ethics, asking what is African about African legal ethics?Taking us beyond a geographical understanding of Africa, the author argues for an African legal ethics that is distinct from non-African African legal ethics which are rooted …
African Philosophy and the Otherness of Albinism
White Skin, Black Race
Häftad, 2020
724 kr
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Albinism is one of the foremost disability and public health issues in Africa today. It often makes headlines in local, national and international medias and forms the basis for intense advocacy at all levels. This is primarily due to the harmful representations of persons with albinism deeply …
Critical Conversations in African Philosophy
Asixoxe - Let's Talk
Av Alena Rettová, Benedetta Lanfranchi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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In this edited collection contributors examine key themes, sources and methods in contemporary African Philosophy, building on a wide-ranging understanding of what constitutes African philosophy, and drawing from a variety of both oral and written texts of different genres.Part one of the volume …
Critical Conversations in African Philosophy
Asixoxe - Let's Talk
Av Alena Rettová, Benedetta Lanfranchi m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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In this edited collection contributors examine key themes, sources and methods in contemporary African Philosophy, building on a wide-ranging understanding of what constitutes African philosophy, and drawing from a variety of both oral and written texts of different genres.Part one of the volume …
Consolationism and Comparative African Philosophy
Beyond Universalism and Particularism
Av Ada Agada
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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In a major challenge to African philosophy, this book demonstrates the importance of the universalisation question for every committed African philosopher. Rooted in Africa’s colonial legacy, the universalisation question challenges the African thinker to show how authentically African …
Consolationism and Comparative African Philosophy
Beyond Universalism and Particularism
Av Ada Agada
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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In a major challenge to African philosophy, this book demonstrates the importance of the universalisation question for every committed African philosopher. Rooted in Africa’s colonial legacy, the universalisation question challenges the African thinker to show how authentically African …
Environmental Justice in African Philosophy
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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This book focuses on environmental justice in African philosophy, highlighting important new perspectives which will be of significance to researchers with an interest in environmental ethics both within Africa and beyond. Drawing on African social and ethical conceptions of existence, the book …
Environmental Justice in African Philosophy
Häftad, 2024
650 kr
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This book focuses on environmental justice in African philosophy, highlighting important new perspectives which will be of significance to researchers with an interest in environmental ethics both within Africa and beyond. Drawing on African social and ethical conceptions of existence, the book …
Futurism and the African Imagination
Literature and Other Arts
Av Dike Okoro
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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This book investigates how African authors and artists have explored themes of the future and technology within their works. Afrofuturism was coined in the 1990s as a means of exploring the intersection of African diaspora culture with technology, science and science fiction. However, this book …
Futurism and the African Imagination
Literature and Other Arts
Av Dike Okoro
Häftad, 2023
799 kr
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This book investigates how African authors and artists have explored themes of the future and technology within their works. Afrofuturism was coined in the 1990s as a means of exploring the intersection of African diaspora culture with technology, science and science fiction. However, this book …
African Epistemology
Essays on Being and Knowledge
Av Peter Aloysius Ikhane, Isaac E. Ukpokolo
Häftad, 2023
636 kr
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This book investigates how knowledge is conceived and explored within the African context. Epistemology, or the theory of knowledge, has historically been dominated by the Western approach to the discourse of knowledge. This book however shines a much-needed spotlight on knowledge systems …
African Epistemology
Essays on Being and Knowledge
Av Peter Aloysius Ikhane, Isaac E. Ukpokolo
Inbunden, 2023
2525 kr
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This book investigates how knowledge is conceived and explored within the African context. Epistemology, or the theory of knowledge, has historically been dominated by the Western approach to the discourse of knowledge. This book however shines a much-needed spotlight on knowledge systems …
Feminist African Philosophy
Women and the Politics of Difference
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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The book argues that women's perspectives and gender issues must be mainstreamed across African philosophy in order for the discipline to truly represent the thoughts of Africans across the continent.African philosophy as an academic discipline emerged as a direct challenge to Western and …
Feminist African Philosophy
Women and the Politics of Difference
Häftad, 2024
651 kr
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The book argues that women's perspectives and gender issues must be mainstreamed across African philosophy in order for the discipline to truly represent the thoughts of Africans across the continent.African philosophy as an academic discipline emerged as a direct challenge to Western and …
Kimmerle’s Intercultural Philosophy and Beyond
The Ongoing Quest for Epistemic Justice
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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This book offers a concise overview of the development of intercultural philosophy since the early 1990s, focusing on one of its key pioneers Heinz Kimmerle (1930– 2016).Building on influences from Gadamer, Heidegger, Derrida and Ramose, Kimmerle’s approach to intercultural philosophy is radical …
Kimmerle’s Intercultural Philosophy and Beyond
The Ongoing Quest for Epistemic Justice
Häftad, 2024
651 kr
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This book offers a concise overview of the development of intercultural philosophy since the early 1990s, focusing on one of its key pioneers Heinz Kimmerle (1930– 2016).Building on influences from Gadamer, Heidegger, Derrida and Ramose, Kimmerle’s approach to intercultural philosophy is radical …
Africanizing African Legal Ethics
Av John Murungi
Häftad, 2021
639 kr
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This book is a philosophical inquiry into indigenous African legal ethics, asking what is African about African legal ethics?Taking us beyond a geographical understanding of Africa, the author argues for an African legal ethics that is distinct from non-African African legal ethics which are rooted …
African Ethics and Death
Moral Status and Human Dignity in Ubuntu Thinking
Av Motsamai Molefe, Elphus Muade
Inbunden, 2023
1002 kr
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This book analyzes the concepts of moral status and human dignity in African philosophy and applies them to the moral problems associated with death.The book first challenges the criticism and rejection of moral status in African philosophy and then continues to consider how moral personhood is …
African Ethics and Death
Moral Status and Human Dignity in Ubuntu Thinking
Av Motsamai Molefe, Elphus Muade
Häftad, 2025
373 kr
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This book analyzes the concepts of moral status and human dignity in African philosophy and applies them to the moral problems associated with death.The book first challenges the criticism and rejection of moral status in African philosophy and then continues to consider how moral personhood is …
Intercultural Thinking in African Philosophy
A Critical Dialogue with Kant and Foucault
Inbunden, 2024
2525 kr
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This book sets up a rich intercultural dialogue between the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Michel Foucault, and that of key African thinkers such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Achille Mbembe, Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye, Tsenay Serequeberhahn, and Henry Odera Oruka.The book challenges western-centric …
Intercultural Thinking in African Philosophy
A Critical Dialogue with Kant and Foucault
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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This book sets up a rich intercultural dialogue between the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Michel Foucault, and that of key African thinkers such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Achille Mbembe, Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye, Tsenay Serequeberhahn, and Henry Odera Oruka.The book challenges western-centric …
Beyond Decolonial African Philosophy
Africanity, Afrotopia, and Transcolonial Perspectives
Av Joseph C. A. Agbakoba, Marita Rainsborough
Häftad, 2024
651 kr
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Beyond Decolonial African Philosophy dives into decoloniality discourse, challenging some of its shortcomings and offering alternative perspectives on the nature of Africanity and Afrotopia (Africa’s better future) from leading African philosophers.Beginning with an overview of philosophy in …
Beyond Decolonial African Philosophy
Africanity, Afrotopia, and Transcolonial Perspectives
Av Joseph C. A. Agbakoba, Marita Rainsborough
Inbunden, 2024
2525 kr
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Beyond Decolonial African Philosophy dives into decoloniality discourse, challenging some of its shortcomings and offering alternative perspectives on the nature of Africanity and Afrotopia (Africa’s better future) from leading African philosophers.Beginning with an overview of philosophy in …
Endangered African Knowledges and the Challenge of Modernity
An Igbo Response
Inbunden, 2024
2526 kr
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This book presents an innovative African philosophical response to coloniality and the attendant epistemicide of Africa’s knowledge systems, drawing on Igbo thinking.This book argues that theorizing modernity requires a critical conversation between African and Western scholarship, in order to …
Endangered African Knowledges and the Challenge of Modernity
An Igbo Response
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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This book presents an innovative African philosophical response to coloniality and the attendant epistemicide of Africa’s knowledge systems, drawing on Igbo thinking.This book argues that theorizing modernity requires a critical conversation between African and Western scholarship, in order to …
African Philosophy and Deep Ecology
Av Kenneth Uyi Abudu, Kevin Gary Behrens m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2526 kr
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This book investigates African philosophical contributions to the concept of deep ecology, which advocates for rethinking human and non-human relationships within our ecosystems, by promoting the inherent and earned worth of all beings.With ecological crises impacting lives around the world, this …
African Philosophy and Deep Ecology
Av Kenneth Uyi Abudu, Kevin Gary Behrens m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
710 kr
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This book investigates African philosophical contributions to the concept of deep ecology, which advocates for rethinking human and non-human relationships within our ecosystems, by promoting the inherent and earned worth of all beings.With ecological crises impacting lives around the world, this …
Ubuntu Ethics
Human Dignity, Moral Perfectionism, and Needs
Häftad, 2026
344 kr
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This book provides a philosophical exposition of Ubuntu ethics, which it does by explaining the saying ‘a person is a person through other persons’. Written by one of the world’s leading scholars of African philosophy, the book first argues that the focus on umuntu (or, a person) in Ubuntu ethics …
Ubuntu Ethics
Human Dignity, Moral Perfectionism, and Needs
Inbunden, 2024
1003 kr
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This book provides a philosophical exposition of Ubuntu ethics, which it does by explaining the saying ‘a person is a person through other persons’. Written by one of the world’s leading scholars of African philosophy, the book first argues that the focus on umuntu (or, a person) in Ubuntu ethics …
Africa and the Metaphysical Empire
Inbunden, 2025
863 kr
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This book investigates whether African cultures can appropriate some useful aspects of Western cultures, or whether doing so risks falling into the metaphysical empire and diluting African identity.Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Ndlovu-Gatsheni characterise the metaphysical empire as an intangible …
