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Decolonizing Social Philosophy and Theory: Insights and PRAXIS from African Thought

Decolonizing Social Philosophy and Theory: Insights and PRAXIS from African Thought

Diriye Kalmoy, Abdirashid

Hardcover

Series: Africana Philosophy, Book 6

PhilosophyGeneral Eastern ReligionsGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 9004781684
ISBN13: 9789004781689
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
What happens when philosophy stops pretending to be a racial, cultural or geographically invented thinking or wisdom? This book challenges this question and refuses easy answers or propositions. It takes the reader through Africana ontologies, epistemologies, ethics, aesthetics, and political thought not as exotic supplements to Western theory, but as rigorous, holistic, living intellectual traditions in their own right. From Ubuntu's relational selfhood to traditional healing praxis, from oral epistemologies to liberation theology to what H. Odera Oruka called philosophic sagacity, the reader encounters a philosophy that breathes, moves, and demands. This book challenges what counts as knowledge, who gets to reason, and what justice actually looks like.

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