Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader

Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader
	Contents
	Notes on Contributors
	Introduction: Philosophy and the (Post)colonial (Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze)
	PART I Africa and Modern Scientific Reason
		1 Philosophy, Culture, and Technology in the Postcolonial (Kwame Gyekye)
		2 Is Modern Science an Ethnoscience? Rethinking Epistemological Assumptions (Sandra Hardine)
		3 African Philosophy and Modernity (Peter Amato)
	PART II Africa and Modern Philosophic Reason
		4 ‘The Color of Reason: The Idea of \"Race\" in Kant\'s Anthropology (Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze)
		5 The Critique of Eurocentrism and the Practice of African Philosophy (Tsenay Serequeberhan)
		6 Critic of Boers or Africans? Arendt\'s Treatment of South Africa in \'The Origins of Totalitarianism\' (Gail Presbey)
	PART III Rebuilding Bridges
		7 African Philosophy\'s Challenge to Continental Philosophy (Robert Bernasconi)
		8 Understanding African Philosophy from a Non-African Point of View: An Exercise in Cross-cultural Philosophy (Richard H. Bell)
		9 Alterity, Dialogue, and African Philosophy (Bruce Janz)
	PART IV The Politics of the \"Postcolonial\"
		10 Tragic Dimensions of our Neocolonial \"Postcolonial\" World (Lewis Gordon)
		11 Honor, Eunuchs, and the Postcolonial Subject (Leonard Harris)
		12 Postphilosophy, Politics, and \"Race\" (John Pittman)
		13. African Philosophy and the Postcolonial: Some Misleading Abstractions about \"Identity\" (D.A. Masolo)
	PART V Thoughts for a Postcolonial Future
		14 Democracy and Consensus in African Traditional Politics: A Plea for a Non-party Polity (Kwasi Wiredu)
		15 Democracy or Consensus? A Response to Wiredu (Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze)
		16 Of the Good Use of Tradition: Keeping the Critical Perspective in African Philosophy (Jean-Marie Makang)
		17 Toward a Critical Theory of Postcolonial African Identities (Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze)
	Select Bibliography
	Index