Africa's Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization
Download or Read eBook Africa's Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization PDF written by Messay Kebede and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Messay Kebede |
| Publisher | : Rodopi |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9042008105 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9789042008106 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Africa's Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization by : Messay Kebede
Book excerpt: This book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, freedom escapes the drawbacks of otherness, as defended by ethnophilosophy, while exposing the idiosyncratic inspiration of Eurocentric universalism. Decolonization calls for the reconnection with freedom, that is, with myth-making understood as the inaugural act of cultural pluralism. The cultural condition of modernization emerges when the return to the past deploys the future.
