Thinking Freedom in Africa : Toward a theory of emancipatory politics /

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Previous ways of conceiving the universal emancipation of humanity have in practice ended in failure. Marxism, anti-colonial nationalism and neo-liberalism all understand the achievement of universal emancipation through a form of state politics. Marxism, which had encapsulated the idea of freedom f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Neocosmos, M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Lazarus, Sylvain > Political and social views.
Ranciere, Jacques > Political and social views.
Badiou, Alain > Political and social views.
Fanon, Frantz, > 1925-1961 > Political and social views.
Liberty > Philosophy.
Political science > Philosophy.
Africa > Politics and government > 20th century.
Africa > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Politics is thought, thought is real, people think
  • part 1. Thinking political sequences : from African history to African historical political sequences
  • 1. Theoretical introduction : understanding historical political sequences
  • 2. From Saint-Domingue to Haiti : the politics of freedom and equality, 1791-1960
  • 3. Are those-who-do-not-count capable of reason? On the limits of historical thought
  • 4. The National Liberation Struggle mode of politics in Africa, 1945-1975
  • 5. The People's Power mode of politics in South Africa, 1984-1986
  • 6. From national emancipation to national chauvinism in South Africa, 1973-2013
  • 7. Rethinking militancy in the current sequence : beyond politics as agency
  • 8. Understanding fidelity to the South African emancipatory event : the Treatment Action Campaign and Abahlali baseMjondolo
  • part 2. Opening up the thought of politics in Africa today : exceeding the limits of sociology : beyond representation
  • 9. Theoretical introduction : social representation, modes of rule and political prescriptions
  • 10. Marxism and the politics of representation : the 'agrarian question' and the limits of political economy--class, nation and the party-state
  • 11. Thinking beyond representation, acting beyond representation : accounting for worker subjectivities in South Africa
  • 12. Renaming the state in Africa today
  • 13. Domains of state politics and systemic violence : the concept of 'uncivil society'
  • 14. The domain of civil society and its politics
  • 15. The domain of traditional society and its politics
  • 16. Towards a politics of solidarity : feminist contributions
  • Conclusion : reclaiming the domain of freedom.

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