A post-colonial reconstruction of Africa / Pieter H. Coetzee.
| Author/creator | Coetzee, P. H., 1949- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham : Lexington Books, 2024. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | African 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023048857 |
| ISBN | 9781793655691 (cloth) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |