Eze On Reason

Rationality in a World of Cultural Conflict and Racism
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8877-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 348 Seiten

A philosophical argument that rationality is based on, or produced from, difference, and is not only worth retaining but necessary in a culturally diverse world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: What Is Rationality? xi

Acknowledgments xix

Introduction: Diversity and the Social Questions of Reason 1

1. Varieties of Rational Experience 24

2. Ordinary Historical Reason 90

3. Science, Culture, and Principles of Rationality 130

4. Languages of Time in Postcolonial Memory 181

5. Reason and Unreason in Politics 227

Notes 269

Bibliography 297

Index 319

Über Autor(innen)

Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze was Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, the author of Achieving Our Humanity: The Idea of the Postracial Future, and the editor of Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader and African Philosophy: An Anthology.