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Looking through philosophy in black : memoirs / Mabogo Percy More.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- More, Mabogo Percy, 1946- author.
- Series:
- Global critical Caribbean thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophers--South Africa--Biography.
- Philosophers.
- Philosophy--South Africa.
- Philosophy.
- More, Mabogo Percy, 1946-.
- More, Mabogo Percy.
- South Africa.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2019]
- Summary:
- This autobiography is a series of interrelated true-life events and decisions taken by a black philosopher that highlight the human drama unfolding in the inferno of the South African apartheid system. Mabogo More details what it means to be a black philosopher in an anti-black apartheid academic world. More's life story traces his emergence in philosophy and his pursuit of a philosophical dream, a dream that takes him from his South African black ghetto township to American and British universities and finally to the prestigious Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement award. His extraordinary philosophical autobiography, with an emphasis on Africana existentialism that takes into account issues of racism, identity, liberation, freedom, alienation, responsibility and bad faith, is supplemented by three key essays from his intellectual career representing the extraordinary contribution he has made to Africana philosophy and black existentialism.
- Contents:
- Part I: A philosophical autobiography. By way of freedom
- Formative years
- Philosophy lecturer
- Overseas experiences
- The returnings
- Black (Africana) philosophy
- Philosophy and jazz
- Post "retirement"
- The Frantz Fanon Award
- Part II: Essays. Philosophy in South Africa under and after apartheid
- Locating Frantz Fanon in postapartheid South Africa
- Black solidarity : a philosophical defense.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-269) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: More, Mabogo Percy, 1946- author. Looking through philosophy in black
- ISBN:
- 9781786609380
- 178660938X
- 9781786609397
- 1786609398
- OCLC:
- 1048946660
- Publisher Number:
- 99979860523
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