Achille Mbembe

Achille Mbembe is a key thinker in contemporary African philosophy, who has been influential in literary and cultural theory, African literature, and postcolonial studies. Oliver Coates introduces key concepts within Mbembe's thought in relation to African history, literature, and philosophy.

List of contents

Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
Why Mbembe?
Key ideas
1. Race, Africa, and Questions of Knowledge
2. The Colony
3. The Postcolony
4. The Nocturnal Sphere and Necropolitics
5. Out of the Dark Night: Decolonization and the New Human
6. Afropolitanism
7. Technology
8. The Planetary and the Common
After Mbembe
Further Reading
Works Cited
Index

About the author

Oliver Coates is Director of Studies in History and Politics at St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK, and Associate Researcher of the Institut des mondes africaines, CNRS, Paris. His recent research has been published in the International Journal of African Historical Studies, the Journal of Asian and African Studies, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History.

Summary

Achille Mbembe is a key thinker in contemporary African philosophy, who has been influential in literary and cultural theory, African literature, and postcolonial studies. Oliver Coates introduces key concepts within Mbembe’s thought in relation to African history, literature, and philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Oliver Coates
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.12.2024
• EAN: 9780367193003
• ISBN: 978-0-367-19300-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, African philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / African