Beauty in African Thought

Critical Perspectives on the Western Idea of Development
Herausgeber: Bateye, Bolaji; Müller, Louise; Masaeli, Mahmoud

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection contributes to the understanding of the idea of development from Africa-based perspectives. African(ist) thinkers investigate the notion of beauty as a source for alternative approaches to pressing global issues such as poverty, inequality, and climate change.

Produktdetails

• African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781793630759
• ISBN-10: 1793630755
• Artikelnr.: 66761500

Autorenporträt

Bolaji Bateye is associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Obafemi Awolowo University. Mahmoud Masaeli is professor of human rights studies at Iran Academia. Louise F. Müller is senior research fellow at the University of KwaZulu Natal and secretary of the Dutch OZSW research network in African Intercultural Philosophy. Angela Roothaan is assistant professor of philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Conceptions of Beauty in African Thought
Chapter 1: The Concept of Beauty and Environmental Conservation
Diana-Abasi Ibanga
Chapter 2: We live in Paradise: Beautiful Nature in African Tradition
Pius Mosima, and Nelson Shang
Chapter 3: African Ethics: Human Being is Beautiful
Stanley Uche Anozie
Part II: Development in Africa: Contested Terrains
Chapter 4: African Metaphysics as a Basis of African Human and Economic
Development
Wilfred Lajul
Chapter 5: Ubuntu Humanity and Community Building for Human Growth:
Sustainable Development in Africa's Cultural Depiction
Frans Dokman
Chapter 6: Ubuntu Humanity and Sustainable Development Goals
Dorine E. van Norren
Chapter 7: Replacing Development: An Afro-Communal Approach to Distributive
Justice
Thaddeus Metz
Chapter 8: Understanding Genuine Development: African Contexts
Luke Amadi
Part III: African Views of Development: Cultural and Spiritual Aspects
Chapter 9: A Reconsideration of African Spirituality in Agricultural
Development Projects: Traditional Ecological Knowledge from Dagara Elders
in Koro, Ghana
Birgit Boogaard, Bernard Yangmaadome Guri, David Ludwig, Daniel Banuoku
Chapter 10: Art Traders and Spirits. Negotiating Values for
Self-Determination in a Frame of Global Development
Angela Roothaan
Chapter 11: Omolúàbí: Understanding the Yorùbá's Moral Obligations in Human
Well-being and its Implications for Political Participation in Nigeria -
Insights from Ikorodu
Oladosu Mudasiru Surajudeen, Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi and Abiodun Fatai
Chapter 12: Spirituality, Capability, and Sustainable Development from an
African Cultural Construction
Aderemi Oladele