Rethinking Africa's transcontinental continuities

This volume of QUEST: An African Journal of Philosophy / Revue Africaine de Philosophie considers Africa's transcontinental continuities, based on the Leiden 2012 international conference. Its prominent contributors include Coquery-Vidrovitch, Rowlands, Osha, Anselin, Li Anshan, Lange, and Van Beek - as well as the specialists Bläek and Berezkin. Our journal has always been a meeting place between philosophy and other disciplines, and this felicitous combination also marks the present volume. The Africanist establishment is largely partial to the splendid isolation and essentialisation of Africa / Africans; by contrast, a globalising, de-essentialising perspective informs this book. Here Africa and its inhabitants appear, at long last, as integral parts of the world as a whole, involved in a constant and complex process of exchange where Africa now gives, then takes; now (in Afrocentrist fashion) takes the initiative in global developments, then follows them.

Product details

• Authors: Wim Van Binsbergen
• Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.12.2019
• EAN: 9789078382447
• ISBN: 978-90-78382-44-7
• No. of pages: 460
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History