The African Other (eBook, ePUB)

Philosophy, Justice and the Self
Redaktion: Olivier, Abraham

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a much-needed philosophical response to the recurrent postcolonial call to uproot the prevalent workings of the colonial regime, with a close focus on the African context. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000682953
• Artikelnr.: 59633100

Autorenporträt

Abraham Olivier is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Fort Hare, South Africa. He is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa and former Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Philosophy. He has published extensively on topics relating to phenomenology, philosophy of mind, place and pain, and African philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction - The African Other: Philosophy, Justice and The Self
Part I: Problems of Justice 1. Justice Through Deliberation and The Problem
of Otherness 2. Consensual Recognition of Universal Rights in African
Custom 3. Implicitly Racist Epistemology: Recent Philosophical Appeals to
The Neurophysiology of Tacit Prejudice Part II: Formations of The Self 4.
Breaking the Gridlock of The African Postcolonial Self-Imagination: Marx
against Mbembe 5. Ressentiment In the Postcolony: A Nietzschean Analysis of
Self and Otherness 6. Can I Choose to Be Who I Am Not? On (African)
Subjectivity Part III: Strategies Against Othering 7. A Most Dangerous
Error: The Boasian Myth of a Knock-Down Argument against Racism 8. Steve
Biko: Black Consciousness and The African Other - The Struggle for The
Political 9. Rebellion and Revolution 10. The African Animal Other:
Decolonizing Nature