Law and the Public Sphere in Africa - La Palabre and Other Writings

Jean Godefroy Bidima is Yvonne Arnoult Chair of French Studies at Tulane University. He is author of Th¿ie Critique et Modernit¿¿o-Africaine.
Laura Hengehold is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University. She is author of The Body Problematic: Political Imagination in Kant and Foucault.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Preface to the English Edition Jean Godefroy Bidima

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Speech, Belief, Power Laura Hengehold

La Palabre: The Legal Authority of Speech

1. The Public Space of Palabre

2. A Political Paradigm

3. Convergent Suspicions

4. A Difficult Place in Political Thought

Other Essays

1. Rationalities and Legal Processes in Africa

2. Strategies for "Constructing Belief" in the African Public Space: "The Colonization of the Life-world"



3. African Cultural Diversity in the Media

4. Books between African Memory and Anticipation

5. The Internet and the African Academic World

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Jean Godefroy Bidima is Yvonne Arnoult Chair of French Studies at Tulane University. He is author of Théorie Critique et Modernité Négro-Africaine.
Laura Hengehold is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University. She is author of The Body Problematic: Political Imagination in Kant and Foucault.

Zusammenfassung

Offers English-speaking readers the opportunity to become acquainted with a highly original and important postcolonial thinker.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jean Godefroy Bidima, Jean-Godefroy Bidima, Jean-godefroy/ Hengehold Bidima, Bidima Jean Godefroy
• Mitarbeit: Translated and Edited by Laura Hengehold (Herausgeber), Laura Hengehold (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 11.12.2013
• EAN: 9780253011244
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01124-4
• Seiten: 208
• Serien: World Philosophies; World Philosophies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung