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On reason : rationality in a world of cultural conflict and racism / Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reason.
- Culture conflict.
- Multiculturalism.
- Ethnicity.
- Philosophy, African.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (350 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A philosophical argument that rationality is based on, or produced from, difference, and is not only worth retaining but necessary in a culturally diverse world.
- Contents:
- Preface: What is rationality?
- Introduction: Diversity and the social questions of reason
- Varieties of rational experience
- Ordinary historical reason
- Science, culture, and principles of rationality
- Languages of time in postcolonial memory
- Reason and unreason in politics.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613022615
- 9781283022613
- 1283022613
- 9780822388777
- 0822388774
- OCLC:
- 271240706
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