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  • Ifá Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance

    by Jacob K. Olupona, Rowland O. Abiodun, Adélékè Adéèkó, Akintunde Akinyemi, Andrew Apter, Barry Hallen, Bolaji Campbell, Henry John Drewal, Ifaboyede McElwaine Abimbola0, Akinwumi Isola1, John Mason2, Joseph M. Murray3, Kamari M. Clarke4, Laura S. Grillo5, Mei-Mei Sanford6, Olúfémi Táíwò7, J.A. Opefeyitimi8, Olasope O. Oyelaran9, Philip M. Peek0, Stefania Capone1, Wyatt MacGaffey2, Ysamur M. Flores-Peña3 ...
    Series series
    This landmark volume compiled by Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun brings readers into the diverse world of Ifá—its discourse, ways of thinking, and artistic expression as manifested throughout the Afro-Atlantic. Firmly rooting Ifá within African religious traditions, the essays consider Ifá and Ifá divination from the perspectives of philosophy, performance studies, and cultural studies. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Reading Wiredu

    by Barry Hallen ...
    Series series World Philosophies
    Reading Wiredu is the first comprehensive overview of the philosophical thought of Kwasi Wiredu. Born in Ghana in 1931, Wiredu, an important observer and critic of philosophy generally, remains an original and penetrating African thinker. Interrelating Wiredu's philosophical writings from across decades, Barry Hallen sets forth the basic tenets and the defining features of his philosophy.Wiredu's ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yorùbá Art and Aesthetics

    Methodologies and Their Consequences

    Edited by Dr Barry Hallen ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies
    An introduction to the art and aesthetics of southwest Nigeria using the writings of Yorùbá scholars and artists who have made these subjects their special interest over the last forty years.Barry Hallen brings together the writings of four pioneering Yorùbá thinkers who write about the art and aesthetics of their own culture: J.R.O. Ojo, Babatunde Lawal, Rowland Abiodun and Wole Soyinka. All were ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Reading Wiredu

    by Barry Hallen ...
    Series series World Philosophies
    Reading Wiredu is the first comprehensive overview of the philosophical thought of Kwasi Wiredu. Born in Ghana in 1931, Wiredu, an important observer and critic of philosophy generally, remains an original and penetrating African thinker. Interrelating Wiredu's philosophical writings from across decades, Barry Hallen sets forth the basic tenets and the defining features of his philosophy.Wiredu's ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person

    by Dismas A. Masolo, Katrin Flikschuh, Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe, Bernard Matolino, Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani, Helen Lauer, Uchenna Okeja, Simon Beck, Thaddeus Metz, Barry Hallen, Michael Onyebuchi Eze ...
    Series series African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
    Ifeanyi Menkiti’s articulation of an African conception of personhood—especially in “Person and Community in African Traditional Thought” —has become very influential in African philosophy. Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person contributes to the debate in African philosophy on personhood by engaging with various aspects of Menkiti’s account of person and community. The contributors examine ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Disentangling Consciencism

    Essays on Kwame Nkrumah's Philosophy

    by Martin Odei Ajei, Kofi Ackah, Paulin J. Hountondji, Tsenay Serequeberhan, Marcien Towa, Katrin Flikschuh, Stephen C. Ferguson II, John H. McClendon III, Richmond Kwesi0, Mogobe Ramose1, Ezekiel Mkhwanazi2, Raymond Osei3, Neera Chandhoke4, Thaddeus Metz5, Louise du Toit6, Leif Wenar7, Barry Hallen8 ...
    Series series African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
    Kwame Nkrumah is globally recognized as a foremost pan-Africanist strategist and statesman. He is less widely acknowledged as a philosopher, in spite of his considerable philosophical training, seminal contribution to African political theory, and incisive critique of the ethics of international relations. Consciencism has the distinctive status of being the only published book that Nkrumah ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Gender Trouble

    Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

    by Judith Butler ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine' ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Making the Social World

    The Structure of Human Civilization

    by John Searle ...
    There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality--a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock markets and cocktail parties. The paradox he addresses in Making the Social World is that these ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • On What Matters

    Volume Two

    by Derek Parfit ...
    Series series The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
    On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons, rationality, and normativity, and a critical examination of three systematic moral theories - Kant's ethics, contractualism, and consequentialism - ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Pragmatism

    An Introduction

    by Michael Bacon ...
    Pragmatism: An Introduction provides an account of the arguments of the central figures of the most important philosophical tradition in the American history of ideas, pragmatism. This wide-ranging and accessible study explores the work of the classical pragmatists Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and John Dewey, as well as more recent philosophers including Richard Rorty, Richard J. ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • In Praise of Reason

    Why Rationality Matters for Democracy

    by Michael P. Lynch ...
    A spirited defense of the relevance of reason for an era of popular skepticism over such matters as climate change, vaccines, and evolution.Why does reason matter, if (as many people seem to think) in the end everything comes down to blind faith or gut instinct? Why not just go with what you believe even if it contradicts the evidence? Why bother with rational explanation when name-calling, ... Read more

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  • Undertaking Discourse Analysis for Social Research

    by Kevin C. Dunn, Iver B. Neumann ...
    Kevin C. Dunn and Iver B. Neumann offer a concise, accessible introduction to discourse analysis in the social sciences. A vital resource for students and scholars alike, Undertaking Discourse Analysis for Social Research combines a theoretical and conceptual review with a “how-to” guide for using the method. In the first part of the book, the authors discuss the development of discourse analysis ... Read more

    $21.59 USD