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Biko : philosophy, identity and liberation
- Title
- Biko : philosophy, identity and liberation / Mabogo Percy More.
- Author
- More, Mabogo Percy, 1946-
- Publication
- Cape Town, South Africa HSRC Press, 2017.
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- Description
- xiii, 306 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Biko was not only considered a 'brilliant political theorist', but is also considered a formidable and articulate philosopher. Biko was not simply and merely a philosopher in the manner in which Immanuel Kant was a philosopher, but a philosopher of a special kind, an important Africana existential philosopher. From Biko's writings, speeches and interviews, Mabogo More's view is that, philosophy is not a disembodied system of ideas nor is it a mechanical reflection about the world; rather, it is a way of existing and acting. To be a philosopher, especially an Africana existential philosopher, is not just to hold certain views, it is a way of perceiving and a way of being in the world, what Biko himself describes as 'a way of life'. This important perspective on Biko would be of value to many Africana philosophers of existence, African philosophers, political and social thinkers, social scientists, psychologists, cultural critics, political activists, students, critical race theorists and anyone interested in the ideas that Biko presents.
- Subject
- Biko, Steve, 1946-1977
- Biko, Steve, 1946-1977
- Biko, Steve 1946-1977
- Black Consciousness Movement of South Africa
- 1900-1999
- Political activists > South Africa > Biography
- Black nationalism > South Africa > History > 20th century
- Political prisoners > South Africa > Biography
- Government, Resistance to > South Africa > History > 20th century
- Political prisoners
- Black nationalism
- Government, Resistance to
- Political activists
- Apartheid
- Black-Consciousness-Bewegung
- Existenzphilosophie
- Nationalismus
- Politisches Handeln
- Rassismus
- Unabhängigkeitsbewegung
- South Africa
- Südafrika
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-296) and index.
- Contents
- Biko the rebel -- Black Consciousness: the movement and its historicity -- Philosophy contextualised -- Biko and philosophy -- Biko's Africana existentialist philosophy -- The problematics of liberalism -- Liberalism's transcendence of apartheid racism -- Biko, Black Consciousness and Marxism -- Biko and liberation.
- ISBN
- 9780796925718
- 0796925712
- LCCN
- 2018401232
- OCLC
- on1013460013
- 1013460013
- SCSB-9747288
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library