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Sobre la razón : racionalidad en un mundo de conflicto cultural y racismo / Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze ; traducción Flavia Macías y Lisa Ubelaker.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi, author.
- Standardized Title:
- On reason. Spanish
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Reason.
- Culture conflict.
- Multiculturalism.
- Ethnicity.
- Philosophy, African.
- reason.
- multiculturalism.
- ethnicity.
- Physical Description:
- 376 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- 1a. edición.
- Place of Publication:
- Quito, Ecuador : Abya-Yala, 2024.
- Language Note:
- In Spanish, translated from English.
- Summary:
- Advocating rationality in a multicultural world, Eze proposes new ways of affirming both identity and difference. Eze draws on both an extraordinary command of Western philosophical thought and a deep knowledge of African philosophy and cultural traditions. He explores models of rationality in the thought of a broad range of philosophers from Aristotle, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Hobbes to Noam Chomsky, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Jacques Derrida, and Cornel West. He considers portrayals of reason in the work of the African thinkers and novelists Chinua Achebe, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, and Wole Soyinika. Eze reflects on contemporary thought about genetics, race, and postcolonial historiography as well as on the interplay between reason and unreason in the hearings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He contends that while rationality may have a foundational formality, understanding of its foundation and form is dynamic, always based in historical and cultural circumstances.
- Contents:
- Preface: Qué es racionalidad?
- Agradecimientos
- Introducción: Diversidad e implicancias sociales de la razón
- Variaciones de la experiencia racional
- La razón histórica ordinaria
- Ciencia, cultura y principios de la racionalidad
- Lenguajes del tiempo en la memoria postcolonial
- Razón y sinrazón en la política.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-376).
- Translation of: On reason: rationality in a world of cultural conflict and racism.
- ISBN:
- 9789942460547
- 9942460543
- OCLC:
- 1526556572
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