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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Okeja, Uchenna B., 1983- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]
Collection:World philosophies.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.