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Deliberative agency : a study in modern African political philosophy /

"Public deliberation, highly valued by many African societies, becomes the cornerstone of a new system of African political philosophy in this brilliant, highly original study. In Deliberative Agency, philosopher Uchenna Okeja offers a way to construct a new political center by building it arou...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Okeja, Uchenna B., 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]
Series:World philosophies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Defining the African political condition : the paradigm of political failure
  • African political thought : theory through conceptual retrieval
  • Normative deficit : toward a new orientation in African political philosophy
  • Palaver and consensus-provenance of a conceptual apparatus
  • Indigenous political concepts, conceptual loss, and political failure
  • Conceptual creativity
  • Conceptualizing political philosophy through conceptual creativity
  • Deliberative agency and meaning in politics
  • Epilogue.