Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Is She Not Also a Human Being?
	Left Exercises in Retrieval
	Left Universalist, African, Black: Postrace for the Postcolony
	Africacentric Universalism
	The Necessity of Universalism, Universalism as Native Necessity
	The Transcultural Work of Native Universalism
	Notes
2. Difference and Left Universalism
	Political Ethics and Elective Entailments
	In Defense of the Political Correct(ion)ness of Multiculturalism
	The Public Appearance of Difference
	Vindication of Discordant Voices in the House of Difference
	Affirming Difference in the Name of the Human: Eccentric Affinities
	Left Universalist vs. Communitarian Allies of Multiculturalism
	Universalism and Cosmopolitanism: Category Confusion
	The Critical Circle at Work
	Notes
3. Ethical Communism in African Thought
	Historical Communism and the Idea of Communism
	Political Vision as the Vocation of the Literary Artist
	The Principle of Connectedness: From Elegy to Injunctive Metaphysics
	African Socialism, Scientific Socialism, Ethical Communism
	‘Producers and Parasites’: Social Division as ‘Ethical Diremption’
	‘Preparation of the Future Way’: Prefigurative Ethics and Politics
	‘Our Way, the Way’: Ethical Communism and Political Philosophy
	Notes
Postscript to Chapter 3: Rereading ‘Masks and Marx’ after G.A.
Cohen and the Ethical Turn
	Notes
4. Individualism in Fanon and After
	Critique of Value Apartheids
	Individualism in Fanon
	From Civic Republican to the New Individualism
	From Black Orpheus to African Prometheus
	The Idiosyncratic Individualism of Paulin Hountondji
	Individualism in Kwame Gyekye’s Social Ontology
	Human Good, Postcolonial Imperative
	Notes
Postscript to Chapter 4: Egoism and Conformism: Pathologies of
the Moral Life in Ghana
	Notes
5. Enigmas and Proverbs
	Context of the Literary Universal
	Poetics of Real Enigmas
	Metaphysical Wonder as Allegoresis
	Rival Histories and Epistemological Crisis
	Enigma and Utopia
	Notes
Index