Contrasts and contests about philosophy

Mogobe Bernard Ramose is Associate Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Limpopo, South Africa. He is also affiliated with the Department of Clinical Psychology at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa, and is a visiting Professor at the Centre for Human Rights, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He is a frequently and widely cited author.

Introduction: Contrasts and contests about philosophy 1. Dialogue as the negation of hegemony: An African perspective 2. Decolonisation and its discontents: Thoughts on the postcolonial African moral self 3. Challenging the dominant ideological paradigm: Can community engagement contribute to the central epistemic aims of philosophy? 4. Universalism and African philosophy 5. Thabo Mbeki, postmodernism, and the consequences 6. Transforming the African philosophical place through conversations: An inquiry into the Global Expansion of Thought (GET) 7. Philosophy-in-Place and the provenance of dialogue 8. Human rights in a moderate communitarian political framework 9. This thing called communitarianism: A critical review of Matolino’s Personhood in African Philosophy 10. The Analytic appeal of African philosophy 11. Chester Himes, Jacques Derrida and inescapable colonialism: Reflections on African philosophy from the diaspora 12. The politics of philosophy in Africa: A conversation 13. On the contested meaning of ‘philosophy’