The Lost Utopia in Beyond Uncertainty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hassen, Mohammed Ahmed.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism.

Horn of Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Göttingen : Cuvillier Verlag, 2025.

Summary:

This book elucidates how the anti cipated independence and the envisioned utopia have devolved into a nightmare.The avant-gardists of the revolution embraced the philosophical ideology of the former colony, which led to severe tyranny.This oppression not only engenders poverty and suff eringthrough rampant corrupti on but also propels the populace.

Contents:

Preface

Forword

Chater I

1.0 Introduction: The Conclusion of Utopia: What Persisted was Imitation, an Ideology ofIllusion

2.0 Having and Not-Having ("Having or Being"; -Haben und Sein- according to ErichFromm)

2.1 The "Being"

2.2 "Have"

3.0 The "Insanity"

3.1 Collapse of culture, as well as the moral tradition and ethical reason, through thereplacement of the capacity for thought by material greed:

4.0 Ethics and Morality

4.1 What is Ethic

4.2 What is morality

4.3 What is ethics in contemporary society, which identifies itself as "civilisation"?

4.4 Culture and Civilization

4.5 Civilisation inherently entails conquests and colonisation

4.6 Is hybrid culture possible?

Chapter II

1.0 Imitation/mimicry of an Illusionary Promise from the Concept of Independence: AnIllusionary Policy Doomed to Failure

1.1 The mimicry/imitation of an illusory ideology: A utopia governed by monopolistic interestshas ultimately revealed itself to be a mere illusion

1.2 The liberation struggle for independence was a struggle of means to an end (afarce!).

1.3 Summary

Chapter III

1.0 The impetus for destruction will no longer perturb them, and the chasm, even theabyss of human existence, is integral to quotidian living

1.1 In what ways did Somali citizens endure and navigate the harsh realities of the civilconflict with their families?

1.2 The detrimental ethical implications of Western colonialism, characterised by thereplication of their illusory ideologies, have profoundly undermined African societies

1.3 Greed drives people through their unscrupulous urge for "power, money, lies, andsex" as self-assertion

1.4 An illusion of one's own existing real sovereignty destroyed, the will of a power thatshould obey one's own interest and one's own profile of glory, for it ultimately led tocollective self-destruction

Chapter IV

1.0 Emulation/Imitation of the Western Illusion Ideology

1.1 Is it evident that bailout package and development aid create bad governance? Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

3-689-52693-0

OCLC:

1534193615