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, and the relationship between historical politics and poetics.

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

Edited by Jean Godefroy Bidima and Laura Hengehold

Summary

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, and the relationship between historical politics and poetics.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Godefroy Bidima, Jean Godefroy Hengehold Bidima
• Assisted by: Jean Godefroy Bidima (Editor), Laura Hengehold (Editor), Hengehold Laura (Editor), Bidima Jean Godefroy Bidima (Editor), Hengehold Laura Hengehold (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781538154182
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5418-2
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Political, Africa, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, 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