Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138570362 ISBN 13: 9781138570368

Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

This book, appropriately titled Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum, signposts and captures issues about philosophy, the philosophy curriculum, and its decolonisation and Africanisation. This topic is of critical importance at present for the discipline of philosophy, not the least because philosophy and the current philosophical canons are perceived to be improvised by virtue of their historical marginalisation and exclusion of other valuable and important philosophical traditions and perspectives. The continued marginalisation and exclusion of one such philosophical tradition and perspective, i.e. African philosophy connects to issues of space contestations and raise questions of justice.

The chapters in this book engage with all of these issues, and they also attempt to make sense of what it will mean for philosophy and the philosophy curriculum to be decolonised and Africanised; how to go about achieving this task; and what the challenges and problems are that confront efforts to decolonise and Africanise the philosophy curriculum. Furthermore, the contributors initiate discussions on the value and importance of non-western philosophical traditions and perspectives, and by so doing challenge the dormant and triumphant narrative and hegemony of Western philosophy, as well as the centrality accorded to it in philosophical discourse.

The chapters in this book were originally published as articles in the South African Journal of Philosophy.

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Edwin Etieyibo teaches Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is the editor of Perspectives in Social Contract Theory (CRVP, 2018); Method, Substance and the Future of African Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); co-author of Disabilities in Nigeria: Attitudes, Reactions, and Remediation (Hamilton Books, 2017); and the guest editor of the South African Journal of Philosophy special issue on ‘Africanising the Philosophy Curriculum in Universities in Africa’.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138570362
• ISBN 13: 9781138570368
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 238
• Herausgeber: Etieyibo Edwin
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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