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Letting Go
(Hardcover)
T.C. Bartlett; Designed by T.C. Bartlett; Cover design or artwork by T.C. Bartlett
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R524
Discovery Miles 5 240
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Tragic Sense of Life is a book of philosophical reflection which
considers the nature and transience of humanity, the trials -
physical, societal and emotional - of existence, together with
death and the afterlife. A superb treatise whereby the author's
intellect is unleashed upon a variety of questions, this text
combines the passionate liveliness found in Unamuno's fictional
efforts with a thought-provoking gravitas cast upon life and
living. The towering ambitions of man are shown to pale in the face
of limitations and reality: immortality, the greatest aspiration of
all, is but an impossibility. The title, in alluding to tragedy,
foretells the author's argument that life and human nature have a
strong streak of absurdity. In the final chapter, the author
compares the classic story of Don Quixote - the man whose mad
ambition led him to ride his horse in four directions at once -
with everyday human life.
VY Mudimbe: Undisciplined Africanism is the first English-language
monograph dedicated to the work of Valentin Yves Mudimbe. This book
charts the intellectual history of the seminal Congolese
philosopher, epistemologist, and philologist from the late 1960s to
the present day, exploring his major essays and novels.
Pierre-Philippe Fraiture highlights Mudimbe's trajectory through
major debates on African nationalism, Panafricanism,
neo-colonialism, negritude, pedagogy, Christianisation,
decolonisation, anthropology, postcolonial representations, and a
variety of other subjects, using these as contexts for close
readings of many of Mudimbe's texts, both influential and
lesser-known. The book demonstrates that Mudimbe's intellectual
career has been informed by a series of decisive dialogues with
some of the key exponents of Africanism (Herodotus, EW Blyden,
Placide Tempels), continental and postcolonial thought (Jean-Paul
Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, and Claude Levi-Strauss),
and African thought and philosophy from Africa and the diaspora
(L.S. Senghor, Patrice Nganang, and Achille Mbembe).
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