Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life: Politics and Ethics at the Intersection of North Atlantic and African Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780367877279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 284 str.

Omedi Ochieng

Opis

This book articulates a radically original account of what constitutes the good society and the good life in a global world. Beginning with a relentlessly searching critique of canonical texts in the North Atlantic and African philosophical traditions, it culminates in a luminous vision of what it means to live well in the twenty-first century.

Spis treści

Introduction: Groundwork for the Infraphysics of Practice: The Good Society and the Good Life in North Atlantic and African Philosophy

Part I: "Think Relationally, Act Structurally": A Social Ontology of the Good Society

1. Introduction

2. Mapping Social Ontology

2.1. Social Structure

2.1.1. Politics

2.1.2. Economics

2.1.3. Culture

2.2 Subjectivity and Relationality

2.3 Power, Legitimation and Ideology

2.3.1. Power

2.3.2. Representation

2.3.3. Relationships

2.3.4. Consciousness

2.4. Agency

2.5. Normativity

3. Dimensions and Vectors of The Good Society

3.1. Interanimated Historiography

3.2. Chronotopian Political Imagination

3.3. Secular/Naturalistic Structures

3.4. Restructurative Justice

4. Conclusion

Part II: Chronotopes: Archaeologies and Landscapes of the Good Society

1. Introduction

2. Contextualizing African Identity

3. African Political Structures

3.1. Auto-politics

3.2. Inter-politics

3.3. Pneuma/Theo-politics

3.4. Meta-politics

3.5. Anti-politics

3.6. Dia-politics

3.7. Ethno-politics

3.8. A-politics/Post-politics

3.9. Endo-politics

3.10. Poly-politics

4. Conclusion

Part III: Creaturely Value: A Meta-Ethics of the Good Life

1. Introduction

2. The Epistemology of Ethics

3. Mapping an Ontology of Ethics

3.1. Contextual Creatureliness

3.2. Toward a Critique of Dominant Ethical Theories

4. Conclusion

Part IV: Emergent Normativity: The Good Life as the Articulation of Ground Projects

1. Introduction

2.1 Ground Projects as World-Articulations

2.2. Ground Projects as Self-Articulations

2.3. G

O autorze

Dr. Omedi Ochieng is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Denison University. His areas of specialization include the rhetoric of philosophy; comparative philosophy; and social theory. He has published articles in the International Philosophical Quarterly, Radical Philosophy, and the Western Journal of Communication.