A post-colonial reconstruction of Africa / Pieter H. Coetzee.

Author/creator Coetzee, P. H., 1949-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLanham : Lexington Books, 2024.
Descriptionpages cm
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SeriesAfrican philosophy: critical perspectives and global dialogue
African philosophy (Lanham, Md.) ^A1410752
Contents How Tradition made way for the Modern-The Search for the Native Universal and an Inclusive Notion of the Modern -- Kwasi Wiredu-Traditional Communitarianism -- Kwame Gyekye-Moderate Communitarianism -- The Liberty Limits of Communitarianism-A Critique of Gyekye's Alternative to Wiredu -- Paulin Hountondji-Marx, Individualism and Pluralism, and the Critical Celebration of Nkrumah's socialism -- How McClendon's African American Idea of Race might have primed Hountondji's attack on Colonial Exploitation-An Appreciation of the limits of Hountondji's Lament with Special Reference to South Africa -- Kwame Anthony Appiah-Liberal Cosmopolitanism -- Ato Sekyi-Otu's Left Universalism and Mogobe Ramose: Rethinking the Post-Apartheid state-Outline of an Alternative to Appiah's Cosmopolitan Solution -- The Return of the Communitarians.
Abstract "This book provides a survey of the social reconstruction recommended by African intellectuals and subjects their ideas to rigorous criticism to establish whether their contributions can carry the weight of modernization efforts in Africa"-- Provided by publisher.
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ISBN9781793655691 (cloth)
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