Africa's quest for a philosophy of decolonization / Messay Kebede.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kebede, Messay, author.

Series:

Value Inquiry Book Series ; 153.

Value Inquiry Book Series ; 153

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization--Africa--Philosophy.

Decolonization.

Philosophy, African.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; New York, United States : Rodopi, [2004]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, freedom escapes the drawbacks of otherness, as defended by ethnophilosophy, while exposing the idiosyncratic inspiration of Eurocentric universalism. Decolonization calls for the reconnection with freedom, that is, with myth-making understood as the inaugural act of cultural pluralism. The cultural condition of modernization emerges when the return to the past deploys the future.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Western Discourses on Africa

Between Evolutionism and Pluralism: Tempels's Path to HumanSameness

The Holy Grail of Otherness

Sameness Versus Otherness

Particularism Versus Otherness

The Future as Forward Movement into the Past: The ConstructednessOf Identity

Colonization Without Colonizers:The Phenomenon of African Elitism

Ethnicity and State Formation: The Mystical Root of Nationhood

Harnessing Myth to Rationality

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author

Index

Value Inquiry Book Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-248) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

94-012-0087-4

1-4175-6438-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401200875 DOI