The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-137-59290-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 867 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 14594 g

This handbook investigates the current state and future possibilities of African Philosophy, as a discipline and as a practice, vis-à-vis the challenge of African development and Africa’s place in a globalized, neoliberal capitalist economy. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the philosophical enterprise in Africa, especially with reference to current discourses, arguments and new issues—feminism and gender, terrorism and fundamentalism, sexuality, development, identity, pedagogy and multidisciplinarity, etc.—that are significant for understanding how Africa can resume its arrested march towards decolonization and liberation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falola, Toyin

Afolayan, Adeshina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Afrikanische Philosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Rethinking African Philosophy in the Age of Globalization.- 2. African Philosophy: appraisal of a recurrent problematic.- 3. Archaeologies of African Thought in a Global Age.- 4. A Philosophical Rereading of Fanon, Nkrumah and Cabral in the Age of Globalization and Post-Modernity.- 5. Africanizing Philosophy: Wiredu, Hountondji and Mudimbe.- 6. Oruka and Sage Philosophy: New Insights in Sagacious Reasoning.- 7. Rethinking the History of African Philosophy.- 8. The Question of African Logic: Beyond Apologia and Polemics.- 9. Revisiting the Language Question in African Philosophy.- 10. Is African Studies Afraid of African Philosophy?.-11. The Geography of African Philosophy.-12. Philosophy in Portuguese-Speaking Africa.-13. An Interpretive Introduction to Classical Ethiopian Philosophy.-14. Confucianism and African Philosophy.-15.Islamic Philosophy and the Challenge to African Philosophy.-16. Philosophy of Afrocentricity.-17.“Black” Philosophy, “African” Philosophy, “Africana” Philosophy: Transnational Deconstructive and Reconstructive Renovations in “Philosophy”.-18. Between Africa and the Caribbean: The Nature of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy.-19. The Advent of Black Thinkers and the Limit of Continental Philosophy.-20. On Vernacular Rationality: Gadamer and Eze in Conversation.-21. Sophia, Phronesis and the Universality of Ifá in African Philosophy.-22. Gendering African Philosophy; Or: African Feminism as Decolonising Force.-23. Feminism(s) and Oppression: Rethinking Gender from a Yoruba Perspective.-24. Africa and the Philosophy of Sexuality.-25. African Philosophy, Afropolitanism and “Africa”.-26. Philosophy of Nationalism in Africa.-27. Sovereignty in Pre-colonial Mali and North Africa.-28. The Repressive State in African Literature: A Philosophical Reading.-29. Re-imagining the Philosophy of Decolonization.-30. Community, Communism, and Communitarianism.-31. African Humanism and Ethics: The Case of Ubuntu and Omolúwàbí .-32. Ubuntu and the Emancipation of Law.- 33. Philosophy and Artistic Creativity in Africa.-34. African Philosophy at the African Cinema.-35. Philosophy of Science and Africa.- 36. Supporting the African Renaissance: Afrocentric Leadership and the Imperative of Strong Institutions.- 37. Africa and the Philosophy of Democratic Governance.- 38. Indigenous (African) Knowledge System, Science and Technology.- 39. African Philosophy and the Challenge of Science and Technology.- 40. Humanitatis-Eco (Eco-Humanism): An African Environmental Theory.- 41. Ubuntu and the Environment.- 42. African Philosophy in a World of Terror.- 43. Yorùbá Conception of Peace.- 44. African Philosophy and Education.- 45. Ritual Archives.- 46. Philosophy, Education and Art in Africa.-47. Teaching African Philosophy and a Postmodern Dis-position.-48. African Philosophy for Children.- 49. African Philosophy as a Multidisciplinary Discourse.-50. A Bibliographical Report on African Philosophy.

Über Autor(innen)

Adeshina Afolayan holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is the editor of Auteuring Nollywood (2014).





Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.