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Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life - Politics and Ethics at the Intersection of North Atlantic and African Philosophy (Paperback)
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Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life - Politics and Ethics at the Intersection of North Atlantic and African Philosophy (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
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What makes for good societies and good lives in a global world? In
this landmark work of political and ethical philosophy, Omedi
Ochieng offers a radical reassessment of a millennia-old question.
He does so by offering a stringent critique of both North Atlantic
and African philosophical traditions, which he argues unfold
visions of the good life that are characterized by idealism,
moralism, and parochialism. But rather than simply opposing these
flawed visions of the good life with his own set of alternative
prescriptions, Ochieng argues that it is critically important to
step back and understand the stakes of the question. Those stakes,
he suggests, are to be found only through a social ontology - a
comprehensive and in-depth account of the political, economic, and
cultural structures that mark the boundaries and limits of life in
the twenty-first century. It is only in light of this social
ontology that Ochieng then proffers an alternative normative
account of the good society and the good life - which he spells out
as emergent from ecological embeddedness; social entanglement;
embodied encounter; and aesthetic engenderment. At once sweeping
and rigorous, incisive and subtle, original and revisionary, this
book does more than just appeal to intellectuals and scholars
across the humanities and social sciences - rather, it opens up the
academic disciplines to a whole new landscape of exploration into
the biggest and most pressing questions animating the human
experience.
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