African Philosophy and Global Justice - Critical Essays

Issues like inequality and immigration show the importance of the debate about global justice. At what cost should we have a fairer world? This book brings together essays that answers this question using metaphors, concepts and ideas embedded in African philosophy. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of Philosophical Papers.

List of contents

1.Globalizing or transcending global justice? Introduction to the special issue 2. African and global justice 3. Should African Thinkers Engage in the Global Justice Debate? 4."Global justice" and indigenous African epistemologies: confronting the global matrix of power 5.I am Because You Are: Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Xenophobia 6. Replacing development: an Afro-communal approach to global justice 7.Ubuntu, Cosmopolitanism and Distribution of Natural Resources 8. Global justice as process: applying normative ideals of indigenous African governance

About the author

Uchenna Okeja is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rhodes University and a Fellow of Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. He has held visiting positions at a number of universities, most recently, at Harvard University, University of Chicago, Justitia Amplificata Centre for Advanced Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften Bad Homburg and Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia Vancouver.

Summary

Issues like inequality and immigration show the importance of the debate about global justice. At what cost should we have a fairer world? This book brings together essays that answers this question using metaphors, concepts and ideas embedded in African philosophy. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of Philosophical Papers.

Product details

• Authors: Uchenna (Rhodes University Okeja, Uchenna (Rhodes University) Okeja
• Assisted by: Uchenna Okeja (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780367086695
• ISBN: 978-0-367-08669-5
• No. of pages: 194
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Business & Economics / General, Africa, Anthropology, Philosophy, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Politics & government, Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies