Postethnophilosophy. (Value Inquiry Book Series)

✍ Scribed by Sanya Osha

• Publisher: Rodopi
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book makes a bold announcement for the beginning of a postethnophilosophical phase in modern African thought. It re-considers the question: "What is African philosophy," and introduces a strategy for setting a broad and productive agenda for contemporary African philosophical thought.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Title Page
......Page 4
Copyright Page
......Page 5
Table of Contents
......Page 7
EDITORIAL FOREWORD
......Page 9
GUEST FOREWORD
......Page 10
PREFACE
......Page 17
INTRODUCTION......Page 19
ONE Discourses of Decolonization
......Page 26
TWO The Lure of Ethnophilosophy
......Page 57
THREE An Anthropology of Colonialism and
Contemporary Globalization
......Page 72
FOUR The Frontier of Interculturality
......Page 87
FIVE An Ethic of Culture and Memory
......Page 102
SIX Agency and a Deterritorialized Literature
......Page 110
SEVEN Figures of the African Female
......Page 127
EIGHT The Poetics of Corruption in a Global Age
......Page 159
NINE A Postcolonial Text and the Agency of Theory
......Page 171
TEN The (Re)Colonization of Globality
......Page 179
ELEVEN Race and a Postmodern World
......Page 189
TWELVE Sarah Baartman, Sexuality, and the Theater of Race
......Page 197
CONCLUSION
......Page 206
WORKS CITED
......Page 209
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
......Page 218
SUBJECT INDEX
......Page 219
NAME AND TITLE INDEX
......Page 233