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The Demise of the Inhuman: Afrocentricity, Modernism, and Postmodernism

The Demise of the Inhuman: Afrocentricity, Modernism, and Postmodernism

Monteiro-Ferreira, Ana
Asante, Molefi Kete

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PhilosophyBlack American StudiesHistoriography

ISBN10: 1438452241
ISBN13: 9781438452241
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 2 2015
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Employs a critical Afrocentric reading of Western constructions of knowledge so as to overcome the dehumanizing tendencies of modernity.

Winner of the 2015 Best Scholarly Book Award presented by the Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement

Afrocentricity is the most intellectually dominant idea in the African world, one that is having a growing impact on social science discourse. This paradigm, philosophically rooted in African cultures and values, fundamentally challenges major epistemological traditions in Western thought, such as modernism and postmodernism, Marxism, existentialism, feminism, and postcolonialism. In The Demise of the Inhuman, Ana Monteiro-Ferreira reviews what Molefi Kete Asante has called the infrastructures of dominance and privilege, arguing that Western concepts such as individualism, colonialism, race and ethnicity, universalism, and progress, are insufficient to overcome various forms of oppression. Afrocentricity, she argues, can help lead us beyond Western structures of thought that have held sway since the early fifteenth century, towards a new epistemological framework that will enable a more human humanity.

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