Format:
1 online resource (365 pages)
ISBN:
9783031571206
Content:
Intro -- Foreword -- Likasi : The Past in the Present -- Beyond The Invention of Africa -- Why Did You Leave the Monastery Then? -- Conclusion -- References -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I Overture -- 1 Resurrecting Mudimbe -- Prologue: A Conference and Its Evocations -- Portrait of a Master -- Invention, Gnosis, and the Colonial Library -- Decolonisation and Its Limits -- In the Footsteps of a Master -- Mudimbe's Response -- References -- Part II Discourse Of Otherness -- 2 Mudimbe's Homo Absconditus: Towards a Resurrection of the Human -- Introduction -- An Excavation of Africanism -- Writing the Human -- Notes -- References -- 3 Aesthetic Theologies of Resemblance, the Production of Colonial Difference, and Possibilities of Ethical Translation -- Resemblances, Temporality, and Non-Secular Medieval Latin-Christian Theocentric Sociogeny -- The Colonial Library: Towards the Production of Difference -- The (Mis)Translation of Concrete Local Realities and the Invention of 'African Art' -- Allochronic Discourse, the Ethical-Political, and Marginality as Method -- Coda -- Notes -- References -- 4 Notions of Africanity -- Introduction -- Pre-Greek and Greco-Roman Paradigms -- Modern Metaphors -- Mudimbe's Intellectual Project -- References -- Part III Reading The Postcolonial -- 5 Refusing to Vanish: Despair, Contingency, and the African Political -- Introduction -- Histories -- Black Marxisms -- Conjugating -- Contingency -- Notes -- References -- 6 Decolonizing Knowledge in Africa: Mudimbe's Philosophical Deconstruction of the Postcolonial Event -- Mudimbe and the Philosophies of Deconstruction -- The Philosophy of the Postcolonial Event -- The Postcolonial Event: A Phenomenology of the Encounter -- The Postcolonial Event and the Truth Procedure -- Constructing the Colonial, the Decolonial and the Postcolonial.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031571190
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783031571190
Language:
English
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
