Law and the Public Sphere in Africa - La Palabre and Other Writings

Jean Godefroy Bidima is Yvonne Arnoult Chair of French Studies at Tulane University. He is author of Th¿ie Critique et Modernit¿¿o-Africaine.
Laura Hengehold is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University. She is author of The Body Problematic: Political Imagination in Kant and Foucault.

Sommario

Foreword Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Preface to the English Edition Jean Godefroy Bidima

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Speech, Belief, Power Laura Hengehold

La Palabre: The Legal Authority of Speech

1. The Public Space of Palabre

2. A Political Paradigm

3. Convergent Suspicions

4. A Difficult Place in Political Thought

Other Essays

1. Rationalities and Legal Processes in Africa

2. Strategies for "Constructing Belief" in the African Public Space: "The Colonization of the Life-world"



3. African Cultural Diversity in the Media

4. Books between African Memory and Anticipation

5. The Internet and the African Academic World

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Info autore

Jean Godefroy Bidima is Yvonne Arnoult Chair of French Studies at Tulane University. He is author of Théorie Critique et Modernité Négro-Africaine.
Laura Hengehold is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University. She is author of The Body Problematic: Political Imagination in Kant and Foucault.

Riassunto

Offers English-speaking readers the opportunity to become acquainted with a highly original and important postcolonial thinker.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jean Godefroy Bidima, Jean-Godefroy Bidima, Jean-godefroy/ Hengehold Bidima, Bidima Jean Godefroy
• Con la collaborazione di: Translated and Edited by Laura Hengehold (Editore), Laura Hengehold (Traduzione)
• Editore: Indiana University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 11.12.2013
• EAN: 9780253011244
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01124-4
• Pagine: 208
• Serie: World Philosophies; World Philosophies
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie