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1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
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Handbooks in philosophy, 2524-4361 |
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Handbooks in philosophy, 2524-4361
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| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- 1 Africa and the Unfolding of Difference: An Introduction -- Conceptualizing Difference in African Thought -- Whites, Blacks, and Difference -- Other Key Issues -- Disability, Gender, and the Non-human Other -- Difference in Specific African Places -- References -- Part I: Conceptualizing Difference in African Spaces -- 2 Exploring African Philosophy of Difference -- Introduction -- Conceptualizing Difference -- African Accounts of Difference -- African Philosophy of Difference -- Ontological Questions |
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Epistemological Questions -- Axiological/Moral Questions -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 African Communitarianism and Difference -- Introduction -- Incompatibility Between African Values and Individual Difference -- Sources of Incompatibility -- Four Ways to Suppress Difference -- An African Ethic of Communion -- Compatibility Between the Afro-Communal Ethic and Difference -- Legal Coercion -- Unequal Opportunity -- Social Pressure -- Perceived Obligation -- Concluding Remarks: Unresolved Issues? -- References -- Part II: Whites, Blacks, Racism, and Difference |
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4 Whiteś Anti-black Racism and the Attitude of Tolerating Racial Differences -- Introduction -- On the Nature of Racism -- The Attitude of Tolerance Toward Racial Differences -- The Moral Value of Tolerance and Intolerance -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 The Burden of Being a Black Philosopher in a White World -- Section I: Conceptual Analyses -- Eurocentrism -- Afrocentrism -- Psychosocial Investment -- The Black Hypothesis -- Section II: The Burden of Being a Black Philosopher -- How Should Kofi Respond to Eurocentrism? -- An Argument for the Black African Hypothesis |
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Empirical Support for P2 via a Jurisprudential Interrogative Approach -- Mathematics and Logic -- Science and Metaphysics -- Egyptian Ethics and Its Application to Law and Politics -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Decolonization of the West, Desuperiorization of Thought, and Elative Ethics -- Introduction -- Mythology of the Colonized -- Decolonization of the West? -- Decolonization as Overcoming Violence -- Forced Anachronism and Forced Obscurity -- Consequences of the Western Refusal to Decolonize Itself -- Untrustworthy Thought -- Superiority and Contempt -- Dangerous Thought |
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The Practice of Decolonizing the West: Desuperiorization and Elative Ethics of Matters of the Heart -- Western Society Must Overcome Contempt -- Practice of Elative Ethics: Material Difference, Formal Identity -- Practically Adhering to Moral Values -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 V.Y. Mudimbeś Archaeological Reading of Africaś Difference in Cultural History -- The Legacy of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Michel Foucault -- Representations of Africaś Difference in Sixteenth-Century European Culture -- The Anthropological Critique of Foucaultś Account of Sixteenth-Century Culture |
| Summary |
This handbook explores essential philosophical questions about the experience of difference and the other in African traditional and modern societies. The contributions go beyond a simple discussion of empirical manifestations. They offer a critical analysis of, among other things, the very nature and essence of difference that makes such manifestations possible. Coverage examines the philosophical basis for the African contexts of gender differences, bodily differences and disability; racial, religious, and cultural differences; xenophobia and xenophilia; and issues of the otherings of non-human beings from human beings. This insightful analysis details the ontological, epistemological, and moral foundations of difference and alterity in African societies, both traditional and modern. Readers will gain a deeper understanding into such questions as: What value is placed on the other in African societies? What is the ethics and burden of care for those considered different in African societies? What role does language play in the othering of the other in African societies? This exploration offers an vital contribution to the philosophy of difference. It not only shows the importance of place in such theorization. It also contributes significantly to African philosophical discourse. This handbook will interest both undergraduate, postgraduate students, and researchers in such fields as African studies/philosophy, identity and alterity studies in sociology, and feminist and LGBT studies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 18, 2020) |
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Difference (Philosophy) -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Philosophy, African -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Difference (Philosophy)
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Philosophy, African
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| Genre/Form |
handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Imafidon, Elvis, 1984- editor.
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| ISBN |
9783030148355 |
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3030148351 |
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9783030148362 |
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303014836X |
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