African Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century - Acts of Transition

This volume explores African philosophies' expression of transitional acts where thought interacts with history and proposes solutions to problems. Influential thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic engage with the realm of criticism and imagination, public spaces in Africa, ...

List of contents

IIntroduction Laura Hengehold
1. What Does Being in the World Mean? Thinking Life and Domestic Bonds in Twenty-first Century Africa, Tanella Boni
2. Probing Gender Injustices in Africa, Delphine Abadie M.
3. Gender Between Kinship and Utopia, Laura Hengehold
4. The University, Cognitive Justice and Human Development, Florence Piron
5. Anthropocenes and New African Discourses: "Dwelling in the World" With Poetry and Criticism, Jean-Godefroy Bidima
6. Spectres of the Infinitesimal: Posthuman Francophone Worlds, Nick Nesbitt
7. Rethinking the Living in Light of African Philosophy: Toward an Animist Humanism,
Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux
8. From Muntu to Moun: An African Ethicalization of Caribbean Discourse, Hanétha Vété-Congolo
9. Nelson Mandela and the Topology of African Encounter with the World, Chielozona Eze
Conclusion, Jean-Godefroy Bidima
Index

About the author

Jean Godefroy Bidima is professor and Yvonne Arnoult Chair in French Studies at Tulane University.Laura Hengehold is professor of philosophy at Case Western Reserve University.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Godefroy Bidima
• Assisted by: Jean Godefroy Bidima (Editor), Laura Hengehold (Editor), Hengehold Laura (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781538154168
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5416-8
• No. of pages: 226
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Print on demand
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Africa, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Non-Western philosophy, Humanist & Secular Alternatives To Religion, Humanist philosophy, African philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies