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Debating African Philosophy - Perspectives on Identity, Decolonial Ethics and Comparative Philosophy (Paperback)
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Debating African Philosophy - Perspectives on Identity, Decolonial Ethics and Comparative Philosophy (Paperback)
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In African countries there has been a surge of intellectual
interest in foregrounding ideas and thinkers of African origin-in
philosophy as in other disciplines-that have been unjustly ignored
or marginalized. African scholars have demonstrated that
precolonial African cultures generated ideas and arguments which
were at once truly philosophical and distinctively African, and
several contemporary African thinkers are now established figures
in the philosophical mainstream. Yet, despite the universality of
its themes, relevant contributions from African philosophy have
rarely permeated global philosophical debates. Critical
intellectual excavation has also tended to prioritize precolonial
thought, overlooking more recent sources of home-grown
philosophical thinking such as Africa's intellectually rich
liberation movements. This book demonstrates the potential for
constructive interchange between currents of thought from African
philosophy and other intellectual currents within philosophy.
Chapters authored by leading and emerging scholars: recover
philosophical thinkers and currents of ideas within Africa and
about Africa, bringing them into dialogue with contemporary
mainstream philosophy; foreground the relevance of African
theorizing to contemporary debates in epistemology, philosophy of
language, moral/political philosophy, philosophy of race,
environmental ethics and the metaphysics of disability; make new
interventions within on-going debates in African philosophy;
consider ways in which philosophy can become epistemically
inclusive, interrogating the contemporary call for 'decolonization'
of philosophy. Showing how foregrounding Africa-its ideas, thinkers
and problems-can help with the project of renewing and improving
the discipline of philosophy worldwide, this book will stimulate
and challenge everyone with an interest in philosophy, and is
essential reading for upper-level undergraduate students,
postgraduate students and scholars of African and Africana
philosophy.
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