Format:
1 online resource (vii, 218 pages)
ISBN:
9781538154175
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 1: What Does Being in the World Mean?: Thinking Life and Domestic Bonds in Twenty-First-Century Africa -- Thinking the Family Means Thinking Life Itself -- The Site of My Speaking -- Of the Couple's Viability -- The Margins of the Couple -- The Family's Complexity -- The Family's Metamorphoses -- A Concluding Word -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Probing Gender Injustices in Africa -- The Invention of Gender -- Reincarnating Gender -- Coloniality, Postcolonial Power, and Gender Identity -- Embracing the Complexity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Gender between Kinship and Utopia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: The University, Cognitive Justice, and Human Development -- From the Multiversity to Cognitive Justice -- Creating Accountability -- Conclusion: Multiversity and Concrete Proposals -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Specters of the Infinitesimal: Posthuman Francophone Worlds -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Anthropocenes and New African Discourses: "Dwelling in the World" with Poetry and Criticism -- Obstacles to an African Philo(eco)sophy -- Discourses and Practices: Notes on the Question of the Anthropocene in Africa -- Subjects and Their Relationships: The Environment's Needs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Rethinking the Living World in Light of African Philosophy: Toward an Animist Humanism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: From Muntu to Moun: An African Ethicalization of Caribbean Discourse -- Les Bambous: Exploiting Language, Creole, and Translation -- Marbot and His Creole Speech -- Language, the "Philosopher" and Philosophy and/in the Plantation Logic -- Congo -- Mining African Languages for Confusion -- Montou/Muntu -- Moun.
Content:
"In Africa, the twenty-first century began with new challenges surrounding and regarding philosophical discourses. Questions of economic and political liberation, the displacement of populations and the process of urbanization present ongoing challenges, linked to problems such as endemic diseases and famine, the restructure of the traditional family, gender and the position of women, the transmission of culture from past to future generations. Changes in labor relations resulting from introduction of financial speculation, cutting edge technologies, and differential access to digital and older cultural forms have placed real demands on Africans and Africanists working in philosophy. This volume explores the ways in which African philosophies express "transitional acts," those acts by which thought interacts with history as it is being made and by which it assures its own renewal in proposing provisional solutions to historical problems. A transitional act combines both the audacity of confrontation and the novelty of creation, prudence in the face of risks and anticipation in the face of the unexpected. Influential and emerging thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic consider this dual activity in the realm of criticism and imagination, public spaces in Africa, and the relationship between historical politics and historical poetics"--
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781538154168
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe African philosophy for the twenty-first century Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2021 ISBN 9781538154168
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
