Philosophy Faculty Publications
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2004
Abstract
This book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, freedom escapes the drawbacks of otherness, as defended by ethnophilosophy, while exposing the idiosyncratic inspiration of Eurocentric universalism. Decolonization calls for the reconnection with freedom, that is, with myth-making understood as the inaugural act of cultural pluralism. The cultural condition of modernization emerges when the return to the past deploys the future.
ISBN/ISSN
9789042008106
Document Version
Published Version
Copyright
Copyright © 2004, Editions Rodopi
Publisher
Brill/Rodopi
Place of Publication
Amsterdam
eCommons Citation
Kebede, Messay, "Africa's Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization" (2004). Philosophy Faculty Publications. 109.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/phl_fac_pub/109
Comments
The excerpt available for download is Chapter 1, "Western Discourses on Africa," provided with the permission of the publisher. Permission documentation is on file. To purchase the entire volume, use the ISBN or see the publisher's website: http://www.brill.com/products/book/africas-quest-philosophy-decolonization