RT Book
T1 In search of Africa(s): universalism and decolonial thought
A1 Diagne, Souleymane Bachir 1955-
A2 Amselle, Jean-Loup 1942-
A2 Mangeon, Anthony 1972-
A2 Brown, Andrew 1958-
LA English
PP Cambridge Medford, MA
PB Polity
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1669288196
AB Foreword$dIn focus : a comparative reading of Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup Amselle$hAnthony Mangeon
AB This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial paradigm, raise the issue of the universal: is the postcolonial the first phase of a new universalism, one which would be truly universal because it would be fully inclusive, or is it on the contrary the denial of all universalism, the triumph of the particular and of fragmentation? In addressing this issue Diagne and Amselle also tackle many related themes, such as the concepts of race, culture and identity, the role of languages in philosophy as practised in different cultural areas, the various conceptions of Islam, especially in West Africa, and the outlines of an Africa which can be thought of at the same time as singular and as plural. Each thinker looks back at his writings on these themes, comparing and contrasting them with those of his interlocutor. While Amselle seeks to expose the essentialist and culturalist logics that might underlie postcolonial and decolonial thought, Diagne consistently refuses to adopt the trappings of the Afrocentrist and particularist thinker. He argues instead for a total decentring of all thought, one that rejects all 'centrisms' and highlights instead branchings and connections, transfers, analogies and reciprocal influences between cultural places and intellectual fields that may be distant but are not distinct in space and time.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 182-184
NO Von der Rückseite der Titelseite: "First published in French as En quête d'Afrique(s): universalisme et pensée de coloniale, © Albin Michel, 2018"
CN JV246
SN 9781509540280
SN 9781509540297
K1 Postcolonialism : Africa
K1 Postcolonialism : Philosophy
K1 Decolonization : Africa
K1 Cultural relations
K1 Africa : Relations : Western countries
K1 Western countries : Relations : Africa
K1 Aufsatzsammlung