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Karl Popper and Africa: Knowledge, Politics and Development (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Karl Popper and Africa: Knowledge, Politics and Development (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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This book provides a diverse contextualization of Popper's critical
rationalism concerning knowledge and his generalized attitude of
criticism on appropriate social and political reforms in
contemporary Africa. The book evaluates how best to address
contemporary political problems, especially in politically very
troubled parts of the world. To address these contemporary
problems, especially as it relates to Africa, the authors found the
political philosophy of Popper as suitable. The discussion of
Popper's political philosophy engages us directly with all the
particularities of socio-economic and political problems within
contemporary Africa. In other words, it presents the truth of the
present socio-political reality in Africa where the question of
what kinds of political ideas and concepts can be offered as
appropriate to a political environment, which so greatly faces
facets of developmental issues. Although the issues and events that
informed the writings of Popper's The Poverty of Historicism as
well as The Open Society and Its Enemies, were among others, the
rise of fascism and communism in Europe, the inventiveness of this
work is how happily scholars in non-liberal societies, such as in
Africa, can pick up Popper's insights and usefully work with them
to offer appropriate social reforms for their society. This volume
is a critical juxtaposition of Popper's ideas in a bid to make good
sense of social and intellectual conditions in Africa, particularly
as it relates to the scale and speed of social change that is
needed in most African nations that are often ridden by corruption.
The book is suitable for studies in political philosophy, economic
and development studies, African Studies and Indigenous Knowledge
systems.
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