Demise of the Inhuman, The: Afrocentricity, Modernism, and Postmodernism - Couverture souple

Monteiro-Ferreira, Ana

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1438452241 ISBN 13 : 9781438452241

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2015

Synopsis

Employs a critical Afrocentric reading of Western constructions of knowledge so as to overcome the dehumanizing tendencies of modernity.

Afrocentricity is the most intellectually dominant idea in the African world, one that is having a growing impact on social science discourse. This paradigm, philosophically rooted in African cultures and values, fundamentally challenges major epistemological traditions in Western thought, such as modernism and postmodernism, Marxism, existentialism, feminism, and postcolonialism. In The Demise of the Inhuman, Ana Monteiro-Ferreira reviews what Molefi Kete Asante has called the “infrastructures of dominance and privilege,” arguing that Western concepts such as individualism, colonialism, race and ethnicity, universalism, and progress, are insufficient to overcome various forms of oppression. Afrocentricity, she argues, can help lead us beyond Western structures of thought that have held sway since the early fifteenth century, towards a new epistemological framework that will enable a more human humanity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Molefi Kete Asante is Professor of Africology at Temple University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438452241
• ISBN 13: 9781438452241
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 238
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