- Description
- xvii, 223 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- African philosophy: critical perspectives and global dialogue
- Uniform Title
- African philosophy (Lanham, Md.)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781793655691
- 1793655693
- 9781793655707 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023048857
- OCLC
- YBP 2023048857
- Author
Coetzee, P. H. (Pieter Hendrik), 1949- author.
- Title
A post-colonial reconstruction of Africa / Pieter H. Coetzee.
- Publisher
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2024]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
African philosophy: critical perspectives and global dialogue
African philosophy (Lanham, Md.)
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
Online version: Coetzee, P. H. (Pieter Hendrik), 1949-. Post-colonial reconstruction of Africa Lanham : Lexington Books, 2024 9781793655707 (DLC) 2023048858