Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Ka Osi Sọ Onye: African Philosophy in the Postmodern Era

Ka Osi Sọ Onye: African Philosophy in the Postmodern Era

Menkiti, Ifeanyi
Chimakonam, Jonathan O.
Etieyibo, Edwin E.

Hardcover

Series: Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1622733665
ISBN13: 9781622733668
Publisher: Vernon Pr
Published: Jan 12 2018
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This collection is about composing thought at the level of modernism and decomposing it at the postmodern level where many cocks might crow with African philosophy as a focal point. It has two parts: part one is titled 'The Journey of Reason in African Philosophy', and part two is titled 'African Philosophy and Postmodern Thinking'. There are seven chapters in both parts. Five of the essays are reprinted here as important selections while nine are completely new essays commissioned for this book. As their titles suggest, in part one, African philosophy is unfolded in the manifestation of reason as embedded in modern thought while in part two, it draws the effect of reason as implicated in the postmodern orientation. While part one strikes at what V. Y. Mudimbe calls the colonising structure or the Greco-European logo-phallo-euro-centricism in thought, part two bashes the excesses of modernism and partly valorises postmodernism. In some chapters, modernism is presented as an intellectual version of communalism characterised by the cliché 'our people say'. Our thinking is that the voice of reason is not the voice of the people but the voice of an individual.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Philosophy

View All