Debating African Philosophy: Perspectives on Identity, Decolonial Ethics and Comparative Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781138344952 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 322 str.

George Hull

Opis

This book brings currents of thought from African philosophy into constructive interchange with other intellectual currents within philosophy.

Spis treści

Foreword by Lungisile Ntsebeza  Introduction  Part I: Decolonising Philosophy  1 Ottobah Cugoano’s Place in the History of Political Philosophy: Slavery and the Philosophical Canon  2 Decolonizing Bioethics via African Philosophy: Moral Neocolonialism as a Bioethical Problem  3 A Philosophy Without Memory Cannot Abolish Slavery: On Epistemic Justice in South Africa  Part II: Race, Justice, Identity  4 Neville Alexander and the Non-racialism of the Unity Movement  5 Biko on Non-white and Black: Improving Social Reality  6 Black Autarchy/White Domination: Fractured Language and Racial Politics During Apartheid and Beyond via Biko and Lyotard  7 Impartiality, Partiality and Privilege: The View from South Africa  Part III: Moral Debates  8 Making Sense of Survivor’s Guilt: Why It Is Justified by an African Ethic  9 African Philosophy and Nonhuman Nature  10 On Cultural Universals and Particulars  11 The Metz Method and ‘African Ethics’  Part IV: Meta-Philosophy  12 The Edges of (African) Philosophy  13 Is Philosophy Bound by Language? Some Case Studies from African Philosophy  14 African Philosophy in the Context of a University  Part V: Comparative Perspectives  15 Relational Normative Thought in Ubuntu and Neo-republicanism  16 African Philosophy, Disability, and the Social Conception of the Self

O autorze

George Hull is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.