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Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference

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Editors:
  1. Elvis Imafidon

    1. Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria

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  • Examines essential philosophical questions about the experience of difference and the other in African traditional and modern societies
  • Explores identity and difference as it unfolds in African philosophical contexts both within and outside the African continent
  • Offers a critical analysis of the very nature and essence of difference that makes such manifestations possible

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Table of contents (30 entries)

  1. Africa and the Unfolding of Difference: An Introduction

    • Elvis Imafidon

  2. African Arts and Difference

    • Matthew A. Izibili

  3. African Communitarianism and Difference

    • Thaddeus Metz

  4. Alterity, African Modernity, and the Critique of Change

    • Elvis Imafidon

  5. Class Identity, Xenophobia, and Xenophilia

    • Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

  6. Creating the Other in the Context of Land Redistributions

    • Erasmus Masitera

  7. Decolonization of the West, Desuperiorization of Thought, and Elative Ethics

    • Björn Freter

  8. Difference in African Educational Contexts

    • Yvette Freter

  9. Enriching the Knowledge of the Other Through an Epistemology of Intercourse

    • Isaac E. Ukpokolo

  10. Epistemic Injustice, Disability, and Queerness in African Cultures

    • Kenneth U. Abudu, Elvis Imafidon

  11. Exploring African Philosophy of Difference

    • Elvis Imafidon

  12. Intrinsic Versus Earned Worth in African Conception of Personhood

    • Elvis Imafidon

  13. Justice and the Othered Minority

    • Anselm Kole Jimoh

  14. Language and Othering in African Contexts

    • Kenneth U. Abudu

  15. Moral Good, the Self, and the M/other

    • Rob Baum

  16. Othering, Re-othering, and De-othering

    • Jonathan O. Chimakonam

  17. Personhood

    • Mpho Tshivhase

  18. Pragmatics and Difference in the Social Othering of African Colonial Experience

    • Jack A. Aigbodioh, Kenneth U. Abudu

  19. Seeing the Other in South Africa as a Promise

    • Lindsay Kelland

  20. Some Epistemological Issues in the Othering of Persons with Albinism in Africa

    • Elvis Imafidon
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About this book

This handbook explores essential philosophical questions about the experience of difference and the other in African traditional and modern societies. The contributions go beyond a simple discussion of empirical manifestations. They offer a critical analysis of, among other things, the very nature and essence of difference that makes such manifestations possible. Coverage examines the philosophical basis for the African contexts of gender differences, bodily differences and disability; racial, religious, and cultural differences; xenophobia and xenophilia; and issues of the otherings of non-human beings from human beings.

This insightful analysis details the ontological, epistemological, and moral foundations of difference and alterity in African societies, both traditional and modern. Readers will gain a deeper understanding into such questions as: What value is placed on the other in African societies? What is the ethics and burden of care for those considered different in African societies? What role does language play in the othering of the other in African societies?

This exploration offers an vital contribution to the philosophy of difference. It not only shows the importance of place in such theorization. It also contributes significantly to African philosophical discourse. This handbook will interest both undergraduate, postgraduate students, and researchers in such fields as African studies/philosophy, identity and alterity studies in sociology, and feminist and LGBT studies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria

    Elvis Imafidon

About the editor

Dr. Elvis Imafidon is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria; and Writing Fellow of the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the editor of Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-ethics, Lexington Books 2013 (co-editor, John A.I Bewaji), The Ethics of Subjectivity: Perspectives since the Dawn of Modernity, Palgrave Macmillan 2015, and the author of The Rationality of African Traditional Thought: An Introduction, CreateSpace 2013. He is the author of many articles the most recent of which is “Dealing with the Other between the Moral and the Ethical: Albinism on the African Continent” in Journal of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (March 2017). He is currently completing a book manuscript at the Johannesburg Institute of Advance Studies titled, White Skin, Black Race: The Philosophical Discourse of Albinism in Africa.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference

  • Editors: Elvis Imafidon

  • Series Title: Handbooks in Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04941-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Religion and Philosophy, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Humanities

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04941-6Due: 27 September 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2524-4361

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-437X

  • Number of Pages: X, 535

  • Topics: Epistemology, Religion and Society, African Culture

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