Africa's Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization |
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| Author:
| Kebede, Messay |
| Series title: | Value Inquiry Book Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-90-420-0810-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2004 |
| Publisher: | BRILL
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $93.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.