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.

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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

Edited by Bolaji Bateye; Mahmoud Masaeli; Louise Müller and Angela Roothaan - Contributions by Luke A. Amadi; Stanley Uche Anozie; Daniel Banuoku; Birgit Boogaard; Frans Dokman; Abiodun Fatai; Bernard Yangmaadome Guri; Diana-Abasi Ibanga; Olutoyin Mejiuni

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