The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy

by Adeshina Afolayan (Editor), Toyin Falola (Editor)

Overview

This handbook investigates the current state and future possibilities of African Philosophy, as a discipline and as a practice, vis-à-vis the challenge of African development and Africa’s place in a globalized, neoliberal capitalist economy. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the philosophical enterprise in Africa, especially with reference to current discourses, arguments and new issues—feminism and gender, terrorism and fundamentalism, sexuality, development, identity, pedagogy and multidisciplinarity, etc.—that are significant for understanding how Africa can resume its arrested march towards decolonization and liberation.   

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137592910
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	11/17/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	867
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Adeshina Afolayan holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is the editor of Auteuring Nollywood (2014).

 

Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. 

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Rethinking African Philosophy in the Age of Globalization

2. African Philosophy: appraisal of a recurrent problematic

3. Archaeologies of African Thought in a Global Age

4. A Philosophical Rereading of Fanon, Nkrumah and Cabral in the Age of Globalization and Post-Modernity

5. Africanizing Philosophy: Wiredu, Hountondji and Mudimbe.

6. Oruka and Sage Philosophy: New Insights in Sagacious Reasoning

7. Rethinking the History of African Philosophy

8. The Question of African Logic: Beyond Apologia and Polemics

9. Revisiting the Language Question in African Philosophy

10. Is African Studies Afraid of African Philosophy?

11. The Geography of African Philosophy

12. Philosophy in Portuguese-Speaking Africa

13. An Interpretive Introduction to Classical Ethiopian Philosophy

14. Confucianism and African Philosophy

15.Islamic Philosophy and the Challenge to African Philosophy

16. Philosophy of Afrocentricity

17. “Black” Philosophy, “African” Philosophy, “Africana” Philosophy: Transnational Deconstructive and Reconstructive Renovations in “Philosophy”

18. Between Africa and the Caribbean: The Nature of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy

19. The Advent of Black Thinkers and the Limit of Continental Philosophy

20. On Vernacular Rationality: Gadamer and Eze in Conversation

21. Sophia, Phronesis and the Universality of Ifá in African Philosophy

22. Gendering African Philosophy; Or: African Feminism as Decolonising Force

23. Feminism(s) and Oppression: Rethinking Gender from a Yoruba Perspective

24. Africa and the Philosophy of Sexuality

25. African Philosophy, Afropolitanism and “Africa”

26. Philosophy of Nationalism in Africa

27. Sovereignty in Pre-colonial Mali and North Africa

28. The Repressive State in African Literature: A Philosophical Reading

29. Re-imagining the Philosophy of Decolonization

30. Community, Communism, and Communitarianism

31. African Humanism and Ethics: The Case of Ubuntu and Omolúwàbí 

32. Ubuntu and the Emancipation of Law

33. Philosophy and Artistic Creativity in Africa

34. African Philosophy at the African Cinema

35. Philosophy of Science and Africa

36. Supporting the African Renaissance: Afrocentric Leadership and the Imperative of Strong Institutions

37. Africa and the Philosophy of Democratic Governance

38. Indigenous (African) Knowledge System, Science and Technology

39. African Philosophy and the Challenge of Science and Technology

40. Humanitatis-Eco (Eco-Humanism): An African Environmental Theory

41. Ubuntu and the Environment

42. African Philosophy in a World of Terror

43. Yorùbá Conception of Peace

44. African Philosophy and Education

45. Ritual Archives

46. Philosophy, Education and Art in Africa

47. Teaching African Philosophy and a Postmodern Dis-position

48. African Philosophy for Children

49. African Philosophy as a Multidisciplinary Discourse

50. A Bibliographical Report on African Philosophy

 

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Well conceived and deftly executed, the Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy is unique in its vision of broadening the compass of African Philosophy. The contributors, established and budding philosophers, have succeeded in further opening the windows of the discipline to the world of scholarship.” (Segun Gbadegesin, Author of African Philosophy: Traditional Yoruba Philosophy and Contemporary African Realities)

“The Handbook of African Philosophy is an exquisite portrait of the emerging philosophical scholarship in Africa. With intellectual rigor, it displays the paradoxical power of presenting the nature and trajectory of philosophies in Africa as they are and of inventing them with edgy creativity. It sums up and sets forth African philosophy with a stamp of authority.” (Nimi Wariboko, Boston University School of Theology, USA)

“This book is a felicitous continuation and renewal of the acclaimed Companion to African Philosophy edited in 2004 by Kwasi Wiredu. Once again African and Africanist philosophers, reflecting on the intellectual history of the continent, on the important concepts that have been produced in its many languages, on the issues it faces today, have risen to the challenge of adding another soon to be classic to the African philosophical library.” (Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University, USA)

“The Handbook of African Philosophy presents a compendium of voices of contemporary African and Africanist philosophers on how philosophy could be reinvented to surmount the perennial, yet multi-faceted challenges the continent faces in a fast globalizing world. This collection reveals that African philosophy has glided beyond the zest for certification to that of affirming its relevance in the remaking of world history.” (Francis Offor, University of Ibadan, Nigeria)