Postethnophilosophy

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-420-3317-7
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 227, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Social Philosophy

This book makes a bold announcement for the beginning of a postethnophilosophical phase in modern African thought. It re-considers the question: “What is African philosophy,” and introduces a strategy for setting a broad and productive agenda for contemporary African philosophical thought.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Afrikanische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Andrew Fitz-Gibbon: Editorial Foreword
Seth N. Asumah: Guest Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Discourses of Decolonization
The Lure of Ethnophilosophy
An Anthropology of Colonialism and Contemporary Globalization
The Frontier of Interculturality
An Ethic of Culture and Memory
Agency and a Deterritorialized Literature
Figures of the African Female
The Poetics of Corruption in a Global Age
A Postcolonial Text and the Agency of Theory
The (Re)Colonization of Globality
Race and a Postmodern World
Sarah Baartman, Sexuality, and the Theater of Race
Conclusion
Works Cited
About the Authors
Subject Index
Name and Title Index