Ka Osi Sọ Onye : African Philosophy in the Postmodern Era / Edited by Jonathan O. Chimakonam and Edwin Etieyibo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chimakonam, Jonathan O.

Etieyibo, Edwin E.

Series:

Vernon series in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, African.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 367 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wilmington : Vernon Press, 2018.

Summary:

This collection is about composing thought at the level of modernism and decomposing it at the postmodern level where many cocks might crow with African philosophy as a focal point. It has two parts: part one is titled 'The journey of reason in African philosophy', and part two is titled 'African philosophy and postmodern thinking'. There are seven chapters in both parts. Five of the essays are reprinted here as important selections while nine are completely new essays commissioned for this book. As their titles suggest, in part one, African philosophy is unfolded in the manifestation of reason as embedded in modern thought while in part two, it draws the effect of reason as implicated in the postmodern orientation. The idea of the book is to open new vistas for the discipline of African philosophy. African philosophy is thus presented as a disagreement discourse. Without rivalry of thoughts, Africa will settle for far less. This gives postmodernism an important place, perhaps deservedly more important than history of philosophy allocates to it. It is that philosophical moment that says 'philosophers must cease speaking like gods in their hegemonic cultural shrines and begin to converse across borders with one another'. In this conversation, the goal for African philosophers must not be to find final answers but to sustain the conversation which alone can extend human reason to its furthermost reaches.

Contents:

Introduction: Reason and postmodern thinking in African philosophy

The journey of reason in African philosophy / Jonathan O. Chimakonam

The struggle for reason in Africa reloaded / Mogobe B. Ramose

Questioning reason / Bruce B. Janz

The colour of reason: the idea of "race" in Kant's anthropology / Emmanual Chukwudi Eze

Ezumezu as a methodological reconstruction in African philosophy / Jonathan O. Chimakonam

Africana philosophy as a cultural resistance / Michael Onyebuchi Eze

This falling, falling ... into freedom: Ubuntu and the question of emancipation / Leonhard Praeg

African philosophy in the court of postmodernism / Edwin Etieyibo

We are all postmodernists now! African philosophy and the postmodern agenda / Adeshina L. Afolayan

Consolationism: a postmodern exposition / Ada Agada

Asouzu's Ibuanyidanda ontology: a postmodern interpretation / Uchenna L. Ogbonnaya

Conceptual decolonisation as a postmodern resistance / Oladele A. Balogun

Momoh's theory of many-many truths as a prototype of postmodern thinking in African philosophy / Uduma O. Uduma and Victor C. A. Nweke

Deliberating with postmodernism and feminism as accounts of resistance: implications for thought in Africa / Olajumoke Akiode

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781622733668

1622733665

OCLC:

1028641300

Publisher Number:

99975451690