Overview
- Offers a critical analysis of the essence of difference
- Explores both traditional and modern societies
- Details ontological, epistemological and moral foundations
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Handbooks in Philosophy (HP)
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Keywords
- Aesthetic Differences
- African Communalism
- African Philosophy
- Anti-Black Racism
- Epistemology of Intercourse
- Gender in Africa
- Identity and Difference
- Justice and Moral Status
- Othered Minority
- Philosophy of Difference
- Race and Violence
- The Other and Alterity
- Xenophobia and Xenophilia
- religion and society
Table of contents (30 entries)
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Conceptualizing Difference in African Spaces
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Whites, Blacks, Racism, and Difference
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Ontological, Epistemological, Ethical, Linguistic, and Aesthetic Issues
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Elvis Imafidon teaches in the Department of Philosophy, Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria. He is a 2017 Writing Fellow of the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study (JIAS), University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research centers on African ontology and ethics. Dr. Elvis is concerned with the extent to which African concepts of reality affect the African idea of the good and the implications of African ontology for concepts such as corruption, otherness, disability, difference, personhood, and gender. In the past few years, he has been specifically concerned with the implications of African ontology for albinism as an other in Africa, focusing on inherent ontological, epistemological, and moral theories. This has resulted in the publication of the book titled African Philosophy and the Otherness of Albinism: White Skin, Black Race (Routledge 2018). He is the editor of Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-ethics (Lexington Books, 2013) and The Ethics of Subjectivity: Perspectives Since the Dawn of Modernity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and the author of The Question of the Rationality of African Traditional Thought: An Introduction (CreateSpace 2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference
Editors: Elvis Imafidon
Series Title: Handbooks in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14835-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Humanities
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14834-8Published: 29 January 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14835-5Published: 28 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2524-4361
Series E-ISSN: 2524-437X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 552
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Epistemology, Religion and Society, African Culture