Reason in History: Hegel and Social Changes in Africa
Autor Babacar Camaraen Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 feb 2011
The book fosters a greater appreciation of the grandeur and complexity of Hegel's dialectic as well. He is still judging our world, despite what postmodernist scholars and ethnophilosophers might think.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780739142318
ISBN-10: 0739142313
Pagini: 137
Dimensiuni: 163 x 240 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0739142313
Pagini: 137
Dimensiuni: 163 x 240 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
1 Preface
2 Introduction
3 Chapter 1. History According to Hegel
4 Chapter 2. Contradictiions in the Hegelian System
5 Chapter 3. The State and Civil Society
6 Chapter 4. Fundamental Aspects of African Cultures
7 Chapter 5. From the Concept of Labor to the Labor of Concept
8 Chapter 6. Labor in Traditional Africa
9 Epilogue
2 Introduction
3 Chapter 1. History According to Hegel
4 Chapter 2. Contradictiions in the Hegelian System
5 Chapter 3. The State and Civil Society
6 Chapter 4. Fundamental Aspects of African Cultures
7 Chapter 5. From the Concept of Labor to the Labor of Concept
8 Chapter 6. Labor in Traditional Africa
9 Epilogue
Recenzii
Babacar Camara undertakes a complex project of simultaneously critiquing Hegel's infamous assessment of Africa, while refreshing Hegelianism itself. Camara reveals Africa to be a construction that contemporary 'Africans' need to confront in order to engage in meaningful social change. In the process, Camara seeks to invert core and periphery and argue nothing less than 'the world is African.' It is a challenging read that holds much promise for renewing Hegelian studies while making a solid contribution to Africana studies.
Babacar Camara has provided a remarkable study of Hegel's thought in the context of colonialism, neocolonialism, and anti-colonial struggles for social change in Africa. He gives scholars devoted to rethinking Hegel and dialectical thought much for thought, whether from the perspective of literature, philosophy, or political economy, and especially in the African context. Camara offers a nuanced critique of fetishism and other obstacles to a reflective anthropology of freedom, where articulating the movement of the rational and the real emerges from sources about which liberationists are most ambivalent. As with C.L.R. James, who saw the importance of exploring Hegel's thought to understand Marx's, Camara reminds us, in no mixed terms, of the enduring value of genuine struggles with the proverbial source. In so doing, he reminds us of the conditions by which contradictions could be productive through engagements with African Diasporic thought
Babacar Camara has provided a remarkable study of Hegel's thought in the context of colonialism, neocolonialism, and anti-colonial struggles for social change in Africa. He gives scholars devoted to rethinking Hegel and dialectical thought much for thought, whether from the perspective of literature, philosophy, or political economy, and especially in the African context. Camara offers a nuanced critique of fetishism and other obstacles to a reflective anthropology of freedom, where articulating the movement of the rational and the real emerges from sources about which liberationists are most ambivalent. As with C.L.R. James, who saw the importance of exploring Hegel's thought to understand Marx's, Camara reminds us, in no mixed terms, of the enduring value of genuine struggles with the proverbial source. In so doing, he reminds us of the conditions by which contradictions could be productive through engagements with African Diasporic thought