The African Other: Philosophy, Justice and the Self

ISBN-13: 9780367356620 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 148 str.

Abraham Olivier

Opis

This book provides a much-needed philosophical response to the recurrent postcolonial call to uproot the prevalent workings of the colonial regime, with a close focus on the African context. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

Spis treści

Foreword  Introduction – The African Other: Philosophy, Justice and The Self  Part I: Problems of Justice  1. Justice Through Deliberation and The Problem of Otherness  2. Consensual Recognition of Universal Rights in African Custom  3. Implicitly Racist Epistemology: Recent Philosophical Appeals to The Neurophysiology of Tacit Prejudice  Part II: Formations of The Self  4. Breaking the Gridlock of The African Postcolonial Self-Imagination: Marx against Mbembe  5. Ressentiment In the Postcolony: A Nietzschean Analysis of Self and Otherness  6. Can I Choose to Be Who I Am Not? On (African) Subjectivity  Part III: Strategies Against Othering  7. A Most Dangerous Error: The Boasian Myth of a Knock-Down Argument against Racism  8. Steve Biko: Black Consciousness and The African Other – The Struggle for The Political  9. Rebellion and Revolution  10. The African Animal Other: Decolonizing Nature

O autorze

Abraham Olivier is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Fort Hare, South Africa. He is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa and former Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Philosophy. He has published extensively on topics relating to phenomenology, philosophy of mind, place and pain, and African philosophy.