Format:
1 online resource (229 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781040011393
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in African Philosophy Series
Content:
This book presents an innovative African philosophical response to coloniality and the attendant epistemicide of Africa's knowledge systems, drawing on Igbo thinking.
Content:
Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What Is at Stake -- 1 Africa and the Challenge of Modernity -- 2 Understanding Modernity, Its Systems, and Imaginaries: Habermas, Taylor, and Wallerstein -- 3 The Epistemic Ramifications of Modernity: Coloniality, Decoloniality, and Subaltern Epistemologies -- 4 The Idea of Interconnectedness in Igbo Thought: Society, Politics, Religion, and Morality -- 5 Solidarity and the Challenge of Modernity -- Conclusion: Birthing "Other Modernities" From Endangered Knowledges -- Index.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032705682
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781032705682
Language:
English