Beyond Decolonial African Philosophy (eBook, PDF)

Africanity, Afrotopia, and Transcolonial Perspectives
Redaktion: Agbakoba, Joseph C. A.; Rainsborough, Marita

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Produktbeschreibung

This book dives into decoloniality discourse, challenging some of its shortcomings and offering alternative perspectives on the nature of Africanity and Afrotopia from leading African philosophers. The book challenges students and researchers to think beyond decolonization to alternative forms of African identities and futures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040269046
• Artikelnr.: 72582968

Autorenporträt

Joseph C. A. Agbakoba is a professor of philosophy at the University of Nigeria. He is a 2022 recipient of the prestigious Georg Forster Research Award. He has been a Volkswagen Foundation grantee, an Alexander von Humboldt fellow, an alumnus of Budapest's Central European University, SUN programme, a visiting scholar at Cape Coast and Frankfurt. He was Head of Department of Philosophy at the University of Nigeria from 2007 to 2010 and Dean, School of General Studies, 2012-2013; from 2013 to 2017, he was Deputy Vice Chancellor (Vice President) at Madonna University Nigeria. He is a former president of the Nigerian Philosophical Association. Agbakoba is also the Regional Coordinator for Africa for the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (CRVP), Washington DC; the Vice President for Africa for COMIUCAP (Conférence Mondiale des Institutions Universitaires Catholiques de Philosophie) and a member of the Steering Committee of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP), 2008 to 2024. His current research interest is in the field of development philosophy and ethics in relation to Africa and intercultural philosophy. He has published widely locally and internationally. Marita Rainsborough is an associate professor (PD) at the Institute for Philosophy and Art History at Leuphana University Lüneburg and at the Institute for Romance Studies at Kiel University, Germany. She is an associate member of the Centre of Philosophy University of Lisbon (CFUL) and co-editor of the journal Estudos Kantianos. She was visiting professor at several universities in Brazil, for example at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Her recent publication is Intercultural Thinking in African Philosophy: A Critical Dialogue with Kant and Foucault (London, New York: Routledge, 2024).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction I. Philosophy and Decolonial African Thinking 1. Philosophy in
the Present Context of Africa II. Challenging and Rethinking Decolonialism
2. Criticisms and Self-Criticisms: The Decolonial Question and Some
'Unthinkables' in Francophone Experiences 3. Decolonization Beyond History:
Rethinking the Epistemology of Resistance 4. 'The Locals Also Have a Hand
in It': Properly Understanding Coloniality for the Rethinking of
Decoloniality in Africa 5. Africa's Future: Political and the Economic
Discourse 6. Decoloniality or Indigenisation? The Vexing Question of
Decolonizing Education in Africa III. Decolonialism Revisited - New
Concepts 7. Beyond the Politics of Decolonial Thought 8. Quest for
Afrotopia in Late Postcolonial Lusophone Literature: A Focus on
Guinea-Bissau 9. Constructivism as the Root of Transcolonial Approach to
African Affairs 10. On the Decolonial Paradigm of Development 11. The Case
Against Decolonisation: A Legal Perspective 12. Towards a Dialogic
Trans-colonial African Identity 13. Refracting Ubuntu Philosophy Through a
Constructivist Lens 14. Reappraisal and Conclusion