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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.   

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Author:   Adeshina Afolayan ,  Toyin Falola
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Weight:   1.508kg
ISBN:  

9781137592903

ISBN 10:   1137592907
Pages:   867
Publication Date:   19 November 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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  

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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. 

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