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On reason : rationality in a world of cultural conflict and racism
- Title
- On reason : rationality in a world of cultural conflict and racism / Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze.
- Author
- Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi.
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | BC177 .E94 2008 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xx, 327 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Advocating rationality in a multicultural world, Eze proposes new ways of affirming both identity and difference. Eze draws on both an extraordinary command of Western philosophical thought and a deep knowledge of African philosophy and cultural traditions. He explores models of rationality in the thought of a broad range of philosophers from Aristotle, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Hobbes to Noam Chomsky, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Jacques Derrida, and Cornel West. He considers portrayals of reason in the work of the African thinkers and novelists Chinua Achebe, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, and Wole Soyinika. Eze reflects on contemporary thought about genetics, race, and postcolonial historiography as well as on the interplay between reason and unreason in the hearings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He contends that while rationality may have a foundational formality, understanding of its foundation and form is dynamic, always based in historical and cultural circumstances.
- Subject
- Reason
- Culture conflict
- Multiculturalism
- Ethnicity
- Philosophy, African
- reason
- multiculturalism
- ethnicity
- Culture conflict
- Ethnicity
- Multiculturalism
- Philosophy, African
- Reason
- Politische Philosophie
- Rationalität
- Sozialphilosophie
- Sozialer Konflikt
- Rassismus
- Kulturkonflikt
- Philosophie > Kulturkonflikt
- Rationalität > Ethnophilosophie
- Ethnophilosophie > Rationalität
- Philosophie > Afrika
- Vernunft
- Kulturkonflikt > Philosophie
- Kulturkonflikt
- Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
- Ethnizität
- Philosophie
- Förnuftet
- Kulturkonflikter
- Kulturell mångfald
- Etnicitet
- Filosofi > Afrika
- Afrika
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-317) and index.
- Contents
- Preface: What is rationality? -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Diversity and the social questions of reason -- Varieties of rational experience -- Ordinary historical reason -- Science, culture, and principles of rationality -- Languages of time in postcolonial memory -- Reason and unreason in politics.
- ISBN
- 9780822341789
- 0822341786
- 9780822341956
- 0822341956
- LCCN
- 2007044868
- OCLC
- ocn180989486
- 180989486
- SCSB-9576964
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library