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  • Doing African Philosophy

    Beyond Textuality and Individual Authorship

    by Elvis Imafidon ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies
    What defines a philosophical tradition? The primacy of the written text and individual authorship are two major defining and interwoven credentials that have been used to deny African philosophical thought prior to the postcolonial phase. In this significant contribution to the search for identity and authenticity of African philosophy, Elvis Imafidon questions the relevance of authorship and ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • African Philosophy and the Otherness of Albinism

    White Skin, Black Race

    by Elvis Imafidon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Philosophy
    Albinism is one of the foremost disability and public health issues in Africa today. It often makes headlines in local, national and international medias and forms the basis for intense advocacy at all levels. This is primarily due to the harmful representations of persons with albinism deeply entrenched in African traditions. These deeply rooted ideologies about albinism in African thought have ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • African Philosophy and Deep Ecology

    Edited by Kenneth Uyi Abudu, Kevin Gary Behrens, Elvis Imafidon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Philosophy
    This book investigates African philosophical contributions to the concept of deep ecology, which advocates for rethinking human and non-human relationships within our ecosystems, by promoting the inherent and earned worth of all beings.With ecological crises impacting lives around the world, this book interrogates deep ecology thinking from African philosophical perspectives, highlighting the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Activating Arts to Understand Disability in Africa

    Inclusive Explanations

    Edited by Charlotte Baker, Elvis Imafidon, Kobus Moolman, Emelda Ngufor Samba ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    While Disability Studies has become more diversified in recent years, contemporary debates still favour the Northern Hemisphere, ignoring the lived experience of disabled people in much of the global South. Few theoretical studies pay sufficient attention to the range of beliefs and attitudes towards disability in specific African contexts, despite the fact that beliefs and explanations for ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa

    Narratives of Change

    Edited by Charlotte Baker, Elvis Imafidon ...
    Series Book 2 - Disability, Media, Culture
    «The authors in this inspiring volume focus on the socially transformative potential narrative has to shape understandings of albinism in Africa. Scholars and activists, they reflect on how traditional beliefs, literary fiction, radio, music, photography, film and the arts can bring about social change, and also educate publics about albinism.»(Carli Coetzee, Editor, Journal of African Cultural ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Handbook of African Philosophy

    Edited by Elvis Imafidon, Mpho Tshivhase, Björn Freter ...
    Series series Reference Module Humanities
    This Handbook provides in one volume rich, comprehensive and rigorous coverage of specific subject areas and thematic concerns in the ever-evolving academic discipline of African philosophy. This Handbook is unique in its focus on central and emerging areas within African philosophy such as Afro-communitarian philosophy, ethics, epistemology, social and political philosophy, existentialism, ... Read more

    $385.99 CAD

  • Ontologized Ethics

    New Essays in African Meta-Ethics

    by Segun Gbadegesin, Sandra A. McCalla, Kevin Behrens, Isaac E. Ukpokolo, Justina O. Ehiakhamen, Jim I. Unah, Elizabeth Oluwafunmilayo Kehinde, Chris Tasie Osegenwune, M. Molefe, Jose Chemhuru, Thaddeus Metz ...
    Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-Ethics examines an often neglected meta-ethical issue in African philosophical discourse: the extent to which one’s orientation of being, or idea of what-is – as an individual or as a group of persons – does, or should, determine one’s concept of the good. To what extent is ethics, or our idea of what is permissible or impermissible, grounded on ideas ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

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  • Still Life

    Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions

    by Henrietta L. Moore ...
    How adequate are our theories of globalisation for analysing the worlds we share with others? In this provocative new book, Henrietta Moore asks us to step back and re-examine in a fresh way the interconnections normally labeled 'globalisation'.Rather than beginning with abstract processes and flows, Moore starts by analyzing the hopes, desires and satisfactions of individuals in their day-to-day ... Read more

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  • Constructing Social Reality

    An Inquiry into the Normative Foundations of Social Change

    by Michael Karlberg ...
    Some of the most significant obstacles to human well-being today are habits of Western thought that have been exported around the world. These habits include dichotomous conceptions of truth and relativity, cynical conceptions of knowledge and power, and conflictual conceptions of science and religion. Michael Karlberg articulates a framework for reconciling each of these false dichotomies in a ... Read more

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  • African Philosophy

    Emancipation and Practice

    by Pascah Mungwini ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023Caught between the history of exclusion and the reality of the world philosophies approach, this is an introduction to African philosophy unlike any other.With distinctive insight Pascah Mungwini brings together African philosophy and the emancipative mission, introducing African thought as a practice defined by its own history and priority questions while ... Read more

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