Explorations in African Political Thought

Explorations in African Political Thought
Author: Teodros Kiros
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2013-10-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136695656

This rich collection brings together many of the leading authorities on African political philosophy to present a variety of perspectives on this rapidly growing field. They seek to show that African philosophy can serve African people as a moral activity guided by the principles of practical reason in addressing problems of the basic structures of social, political, and economic institutions.

Explorations in African Political Thought

Explorations in African Political Thought
Author: Teodros Kiros
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780415927673

This work brings together authorities on African political philosophy. Collectively they seek to show that African philosophy can serve African people as a moral activity guided by the principles of practical reason in addressing problems of the social, political, and economic institutions.

African Political Thought

African Political Thought
Author: Guy Martin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2012-12-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1403966346

For most of its history, the African continent has witnessed momentous political change, remarkable philosophical innovation, and the complex cross-fertilization of ideologies and belief systems. This definitive study surveys the concepts, values, and historical upheavals that have shaped African political systems from the ancient period to the postcolonial era and beyond. Beginning with the emergence of indigenous political institutions, it traces the most important developments in African history, including the Africanization of Islam, liberal democratic movements, socialism, Pan-Africanism, and Africanist-Populist resistance to the neoliberal world order. The result is an invaluable resource on a region too often ignored in the history of political thought.

Anti-Colonial Solidarity

Anti-Colonial Solidarity
Author: George N. Fourlas
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2022-01-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1538141477

Anti-Colonial Solidarity: Race, Reconciliation, and MENA Liberation confronts the racialization of Middle-Eastern and North African (MENA) perceived peoples from a global perspective. George Fourlas critiques the ways that orientalism, racism, and colonialism cooperatively emerged and afforded the imaginary landscapes of the recently recategorized Middle East. This critique also clarifies possibility, both in a past that has been obscured by the colonial palimpsest, and in the present through exemplary cases of MENA solidarity that act as guideposts for what might be achieved through effective coordination and meaning-making practices. Hence, in confronting the problem of racialization, the author reflects on the conditions of the possibility of a solidarity amongst MENA peoples, and subjugated peoples more generally, that resists the cyclical character of violent domination which has defined colonial power since at least 1492. Rather than offer a blueprint for a well-ordered free society, however, Anti-Colonial Solidarity explores what is required to enact an open-ended collectivity that resists rigid universalism, as well as reification, and prioritizes reciprocal relations with others and the environment. At once a rejection of orientalist narratives and a critique of solidarity that illuminates defensive possibilities for MENA people beyond the insufficient, yet still necessary, politics of recognition, Anti-Colonial Solidarity is a call to action for MENA people, and subjugated people more generally, to reclaim ourselves and our history from the trappings of colonial domination.

African Political Thought

African Political Thought
Author: G. Martin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2012-12-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137062053

Focusing on individual political thinkers and beginning with indigenous African political thought, the book successively examines African nationalism, African socialism, populism and Marxism, Africanism and pan-Africanism, concluding with contemporary perspectives on democracy, development and the African state.

Amor Mundi

Amor Mundi
Author: J.W. Bernauer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 940093565X

The title of our collection is owed to Hannah Arendt herself. Writing to Karl Jaspers on August 6, 1955, she spoke of how she had only just begun to really love the world and expressed her desire to testify to that love in the title of what came to be published as The Human Condition: "Out of gratitude, I want to call my book about political theories Arnor Mundi. "t In retrospect, it was fitting that amor mundi, love of the world, never became the title of only one of Arendt's studies, for it is the theme which permeates all of her thought. The purpose of this volume's a- ticles is to pay a critical tribute to this theme by exploring its meaning, the cultural and intellectual sources from which it derives, as well as its resources for conte- porary thought and action. We are privileged to include as part of the collection two previously unpu- lished lectures by Arendt as well as a rarely noticed essay which she wrote in 1964. Taken together, they engrave the central features of her vision of amor mundi. Arendt presented "Labor, Work, Action" on November 10, 1964, at a conference "Christianity and Economic Man:Moral Decisions in an Affluent Society," which 2 was held at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.

Understanding African Philosophy

Understanding African Philosophy
Author: Richard H. Bell
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2002
Genre: Philosophie africaine
ISBN: 9780415939379

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought

A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought
Author: Ryan K. Balot
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2012-12-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 111845135X

A COMPANION TO GREEK AND ROMAN POLITICAL THOUGHT Justice, virtue, and citizenship were at the center of political life in ancient Greece and Rome and were frequently discussed by classical poets, historians, and philosophers. This Companion illuminates Greek and Roman political thought in all its range, diversity, and depth. Thirty-four essays from leading scholars in history, classics, philosophy, and political science provide stimulating discussions of classical political thought, ranging from the Archaic Greek epics to the final days of the Roman Empire and beyond. These essays strike a judicious yet thought-provoking balance between theoretical and historical perspectives. A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought is an authoritative guide to the ancient Greek and Roman political questions that continue to shape and challenge the modern world.

African Politics and Ethics

African Politics and Ethics
Author: Munyaradzi Felix Murove
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030541851

In this book, Munyaradzi Felix Murove explores African traditional ethical resources for African politics. Arguing that African ethics is integral to African post-colonial political contentious discourse, Murove invites the reader to reflect on various problematic political issues in post-colonial Africa and how African ethics has been applied in these situations. Starting with a succinct discussion of the scope of African ethics, he discusses how African ethical values have been applied by post-colonial politicians in the reconstruction of their societies. Further, Murove looks critically at the issue of African poverty and how the ethic of regional integration and economic cooperation among post-colonial African nation-states has been instrumental to efforts aimed at overcoming the scourge of poverty. The main question this book seeks to answer is: Are African traditional ethical values a panacea to modern African political problems?

Black Heretics, Black Prophets

Black Heretics, Black Prophets
Author: Anthony Bogues
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317958268

First published in 2003. This pioneering new book surveys the political thought of a selection of influential black thinkers in provocative exploration of the black radical tradition as it has evolved in the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States. Each chapter focuses on key figures or social movement including the slave Cugoano, the American anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, C.L.R. James, W.E.B Du Bois, former leader of the anti-colonial movement in Tanzania Julius Nyerere, Walter Rodney, the political philosophy of Rastafari, and the activist-musician Bob Marley. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of radical black thought and the development of an activist political tradition.