Postcolonial African Philosophy A Critical

Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader sets out a timely and powerful agenda for contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean, and African American philosophy.

Emmanuel Chuckwudi Eze is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University, editor of Racist Enlightenment (Blackwell Publishers, 1996) and African Philosophy: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming). He is Research Associate at the African Studies Centre, Cambridge University, 1996-97 and Diamond Distinguished Visitor in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research.

Notes on Contributors

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Introduction: Philosophy and the (Post)colonial

1

(22)

Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze

PART I Africa and Modern Scientific Reason

23

(78)

Philosophy, Culture, and Technology in the Postcolonial

25

(20)

Kwame Gyekye

Is Modern Science an Ethnoscience? Rethinking Epistemological Assumptions

45

(26)

Sandra Harding

African Philosophy and Modernity

71

(30)

Peter Amato

PART II Africa and Modern Philosophic Reason

101

(80)

The Color of Reason: The Idea of ``Race'' in Kant's Anthropology

103

(38)

Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze

The Critique of Eurocentrism and the Practice of African Philosophy

141

(21)

Tsenay Serequeberhan

Critic of Boers or Africans? Arendt's Treatment of South Africa in The Origins of Totalitarianism

162

(19)

Gail Presbey

PART III Rebuilding Bridges

181

(58)

African Philosophy's Challenge to Continental Philosophy

183

(14)

Robert Bernasconi

Understanding African Philosophy from a Non-African Point of View: An Exercise in Cross-cultural Philosophy

197

(24)

Richard H. Bell

Alterity, Dialogue, and African Philosophy

221

(18)

Bruce Fanz

PART IV The Politics of the ``Postcolonial''

239

(62)

Tragic Dimensions of our Neocolonial ``Postcolonial'' World

241

(11)

Lewis Gordon

Honor, Eunuchs, and the Postcolonial Subject

252

(8)

Leonard Harris

Postphilosophy, Politics, and ``Race''

260

(23)

John Pittman

African Philosophy and the Postcolonial: Some Misleading Abstractions about ``Identity''

283

(18)

D.A. Masolo

PART V Thoughts for a Postcolonial Future

301

(44)

Democracy and Consensus in African Traditional Politics: A Plea for a Non-party Polity

303

(10)

Kwasi Wiredu

Democracy or Consensus? A Response to Wiredu

313

(11)

Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze

Of the Good Use of Tradition: Keeping the Critical Perspective in African Philosophy

324

(15)

Jean-Marie Makang

Toward a Critical Theory of Postcolonial African Identities

339

(6)

Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze

Select Bibliography

345

(10)

Index

355

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