Development and Modernity in Africa

INHALT

Introduction:
Intercultural Philosophy, Africa and Development

Chapter 1
Modernity and Development

Chapter 2
Ideological Modernity and Development

Chapter 3
Agency, Circumstances and Ideological Compositionality

Chapter 4
Umunna: The Religious Philosophy Complex of the Igbo and Its Evolution

Chapter 5
African Philosophy Complex, Imperialism and the Subversion of African Agential Integrity

Chapter 6
African Responses to the Development Crisis

Chapter 7
Justice and Development: Explorations of Complementation, Trans-Cultural and Positive Justice

Further Reading, Index


Über dieses Buch:
“Development and Modernity in Africa by a leading African philosopher. Joseph C.A. Agbakoba provides an insightful cogitation of gems of philosophical lexicons indigenous to Africa. He brings forth the philosophical thought and resources ‘logos spermatikos’ of a rich continent, which is a rich point for dialogue with mainstream Western philosophy. This work will bring delight to one eager to go into comparative culture and philosophy. In this work, Prof. Agbakoba develops his intercultural approach, enlarging such concepts as reasonability, insensibility and compositionality and introducing new ones such as positive and negative justice and proactive solidarity, thus opening a door to a philosophical life-world many of us never see or think about, though it has many implications and has a huge impact on the life of Africans and the rest of humankind.”
Prof. em. Alfredo P. Co, PhD, President
The Philippine Academy of Philosophical Research
University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Phillipines

“An amazing tour d’horizon of the ethical foundations of development by one of Africa’s foremost philosophers. Drawing on Igbo philosophy to explore the realities of inevitably hybridized societies and cultures in Africa, Agbakoba sets out the foundations of an ‘Afro-constructivist’ social philosophy that breaks free from the victimological logics that have bedeviled politics in Africa and beyond. His forceful plea for replacing the identitarian concerns of historical anticolonialism with a developmental ethics based on pro-active solidarity, capacity building and positive freedom constitutes a timely intervention in academic debates in Africa and elsewhere that remain caught in ‘decolonial’ preoccupations with the past and fail to address the developmental challenges Africa faces in a multipolar world of globalized modernity.”
Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler
Dept. of New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany

“… a significant contribution to development discourse in Africa. From a thesis of a much-needed re-envisioning, re-articulation and reconstruction of African development thought in the light of philosophical information from diverse global sources, this book constructs a vision for African development that is rational, authentic, ecumenical and inspirational as well as a sophisticated design of the African State as a development actor.”
Enyinna Nwauche, LLD, Professor of Law
Nelson Mandela School of Law, University of Fort Hare
East London, South Africa

“I found Joseph Agbakoba’s latest work an important contribution to the debate about African development. Agbakoba does not spare the African traditional values and culture when he feels they contribute to the forces holding back African development. He highlights the dibias and ozo title system in traditional Igbo culture as negative and harmful in encouraging poor character and anti-rationalistic mind sets. Agbakoba notes the need to achieve a positive ideology to buttress development. He believes there can be a merging of traditional and modern values. He also recognizes that there were anti-social aspects of the traditional society. In this regard, Agbakoba removes the sentimental portrait of African participation in the slave trade, showing how Africans reinforced the trade ideologically and practically. This book provides much needed analysis of traditional African values and provides a way forward to African development.”
Rina Okonkwo, Professor of History
Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu, Nigeria


Vom selben Autor erschien in unserem Programm:
„Perspectives in African Intercultural Philosophical Studies“, ISBN 978-3-89645-725-7.