Research Catalog

Title

Consolationism and comparative African philosophy : beyond universalism and particularism / Ada Agada ; foreword by Bryan W. Van Norden.

Author

Agada, Ada

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

Van Norden, Bryan W. (Bryan William)

Description

xv, 191 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"In this highly original book, Ada Agada responds to the question of how a philosophy can be African and at the same time universally relevant by constructing an original philosophical system that is at once African and universal. Drawing on African forms of thought and conceptual schemes like ethnophilosophy, ubuntu, sage philosophy, négritude, ibuanyidanda philosophy, and ezumezu logic, the author introduces new concepts and conceptual schemes like mood and proto-panpsychism into philosophical vocabulary and weaves them into a coherent and original system that promises to significantly impact contemporary African philosophy. Arguing for intercultural and comparative philosophy as a desirable mode of philosophising in a continually globalising and interconnected world, the book demonstrates the universal applicability of consolationism. This book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of African Studies, intercultural philosophy, philosophy of mind, and existentialism"--

Series Statement

Routledge studies in African philosophy

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in African philosophy.

Subject

• 1900-2099
• Philosophy, African > 20th century
• Philosophy, African > 21st century
• Philosophy, Comparative
• Consolation
• Philosophy, African

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part One: Universalism-particularism divide conundrum revisited. The ethnophilosophy in the African philosophical canon -- The perennial challenge : transcending the universalism-particularism divide -- Transcending the universalism-particularism divide : the challenge of consolationism -- Part Two: Consolation philosophy. The consolationist system -- On God and Nature -- Homo Melancholicus -- Part Three: Cross-cultural and comparative philosophy. Cross-cultural and comparative philosophy as moral conversation -- Consolation philosophy's challenge to German philosophy and Western existentialist thought -- The intellectual love of god in a comparative context.

Call Number

ReCAP 23-3045

ISBN

• 9780367776206
• 0367776200

LCCN

2021025120

OCLC

1255521769

Author

Agada, Ada, author.

Title

Consolationism and comparative African philosophy : beyond universalism and particularism / Ada Agada ; foreword by Bryan W. Van Norden.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in African philosophy

Routledge studies in African philosophy.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ENGAGES MAJOR AFRICAN AND WESTERN PHILOSOPHERS IN COMPELLING DIALOGUE EXPOUNDING DIVERSITY.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Van Norden, Bryan W. (Bryan William), writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 23-3045