Africa's quest for a philosophy of decolonization /

This book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, freedom escapes the drawbacks of otherness, as defended by ethnophilosophy, while exposing the idiosyncratic inspiration of Eurocentric universalism. Decolonization calls for the reconnection with free...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kebede, Messay
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2004.
Series:Value inquiry book series ; v. 153.
Subjects:
Philosophy > Africa.
Decolonization > Africa.
Philosophie > Afrique.
Décolonisation > Afrique.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Decolonization
Philosophy
Africa
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Western Discourses on Africa
  • Between Evolutionism and Pluralism: Tempels's Path to HumanSameness
  • The Holy Grail of Otherness
  • Sameness Versus Otherness
  • Particularism Versus Otherness
  • The Future as Forward Movement into the Past: The ConstructednessOf Identity
  • Colonization Without Colonizers:The Phenomenon of African Elitism
  • Ethnicity and State Formation: The Mystical Root of Nationhood
  • Harnessing Myth to Rationality
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • About the Author
  • Index
  • Value Inquiry Book Series.

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