Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays presents a defense of universalism as the foundation of moral and political arguments and commitments. Consisting of five intertwined essays, the book claims that centering such arguments and commitments on a particular place, in this instance the African world, is entirely compatible with that foundational universalism. Ato Sekyi-Otu thus proposes a less conventional mode of Africacentrism, one that rejects the usual hostility to universalism as an imperialist Eurocentric hoax. Sekyi-Otu argues that universalism is an inescapable presupposition of ethical judgment in general and critique in particular, and that it is especially indispensable for radical criticism of conditions of existence in postcolonial society and for vindicating visions of social regeneration. The constituent chapters of the book are exhibits of that argument and question some fashionable conceptual oppositions and value apartheids. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the fields of social and political philosophy, contemporary political theory, postcolonial studies, African philosophy and social thought.
Is she not also a human being? -- Deferring to difference, cultivating the civil commons, honouring humanity : what's the left universalist to do? -- Ethical communism in African political discourse -- Individualism in Fanon and after -- Enigmas of the world, proverbs of the human condition : revisiting some postcolonial African novels.
Is she not also a human being? -- Deferring to difference, cultivating the civil commons, honouring humanity : what's the left universalist to do? -- Ethical communism in African political discourse -- Individualism in Fanon and after -- Enigmas of the world, proverbs of the human condition : revisiting some postcolonial African novels
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
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Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis
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1st edition.
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