African philosophy for the twenty-first century : acts of transition / edited by Jean Godefroy Bidima and Laura Hengehold.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bidima, Jean Godefroy, 1958- editor.

Hengehold, Laura, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, African--21st century.

Philosophy, African.

Physical Description:

vii, 218 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]

Summary:

"In Africa, the twenty-first century began with new challenges surrounding and regarding philosophical discourses. Questions of economic and political liberation, the displacement of populations and the process of urbanization present ongoing challenges, linked to problems such as endemic diseases and famine, the restructure of the traditional family, gender and the position of women, the transmission of culture from past to future generations. Changes in labor relations resulting from introduction of financial speculation, cutting edge technologies, and differential access to digital and older cultural forms have placed real demands on Africans and Africanists working in philosophy. This volume explores the ways in which African philosophies express "transitional acts," those acts by which thought interacts with history as it is being made and by which it assures its own renewal in proposing provisional solutions to historical problems. A transitional act combines both the audacity of confrontation and the novelty of creation, prudence in the face of risks and anticipation in the face of the unexpected. Influential and emerging thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic consider this dual activity in the realm of criticism and imagination, public spaces in Africa, and the relationship between historical politics and historical poetics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Laura Hengehold

What Does Being in the World Mean? Thinking Life and Domestic Bonds in Twentyfirst Century Africa / Tanella Boni

Probing Gender Injustices in Africa / Delphine Abadie M.

Gender Between Kinship and Utopia / Laura Hengehold

The University, Cognitive Justice and Human Development / Florence Piron

Anthropocenes and New African Discourses: "Dwelling in the World" With Poetry and Criticism / Jean-Godefroy Bidima

Spectres of the Infinitesimal: Posthuman Francophone Worlds / Nick Nesbitt

Rethinking the Living in Light of African Philosophy: Toward an Animist Humanism /Se̹verine Kodjo-Grandvaux

From Muntu to Moun: An African Ethicalization of Caribbean Discourse / Hane̹tha Ve̹te̹-Congolo

Nelson Mandela and the Topology of African Encounter with the World /

Chielozona Eze

Conclusion / Jean-Godefroy Bidima.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: African philosophy for the twenty-first century

ISBN:

9781538154168

1538154161

OCLC:

1262964977

Publisher Number:

99989447294