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  • Afrotopia

    by Felwine Sarr ...
    Translated by Drew S. Burk, Sarah Jones-Boardman ...
    Series series Univocal
    A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first centuryIn the recent aftermath of colonialism, civil wars, and the AIDS crisis, a new day finally seems to be shining on the African continent. Africa has once again become a site of creative potential and a vibrant center of economic growth and production. No longer stigmatized by ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • African Meditations

    by Felwine Sarr ...
    Translated by Drew S. Burk ...
    Series series Univocal
    An influential thinker’s fascinating reflections and meditations on reacclimating to his native Senegal as a young academic after years of study abroadThe call to morning prayer. A group run at daybreak along the Corniche in Dakar. A young woman shedding tears on a beach as her friends take a boat to Europe. In African Meditations, paths to enlightenment collide with tales of loss and ruminations, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • To Write the Africa World

    Edited by Achille Mbembe, Felwine Sarr ...
    Series series Critical South
    In October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar and Saint-Louis, Senegal, to reflect on the present and future of Africa in the midst of transformations that are sweeping through the contemporary world. The aim was to take stock of the renewal of Afro-diasporic critical thought and to discuss the new perspectives emerging from the ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Scent of the Father

    Essay on the Limits of Life and Science in Sub-Saharan Africa

    by Valentin-Yves Mudimbe ...
    Translated by Jonathan Adjemian ...
    Series series Critical South
    Valentin-Yves Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, novelist, poet, essayist, and academic, widely considered to be one of the most important African thinkers of his generation. The ideas and arguments he has developed in his writings since the 1970s, including The Invention of Africa, have been hugely influential across many disciplines and established his reputation as one of the essential ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • The Politics of Time

    Imagining African Becomings

    Edited by Achille Mbembe, Felwine Sarr ...
    Series series Critical South
    As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical shift: Africa, and the Global South more generally, is increasingly becoming a principal theatre in which the future of the planet plays itself out. But not only this: Africa is at the same time emerging as one of the great laboratories for novel forms of social, economic, political, intellectual, ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • A Rise in Humanity

    Opening lecture of the academic year 2021–2022

    by Felwine Sarr ...
    Series series eCahiers de l’Institut
    The ePaper presents A Rise in Humanity, the opening lecture of the academic year 2021–2022 delivered by Felwine Sarr at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. In his lecture, Mr Sarr explains how societies need to take ownership of their present and future, and proposes paths to reengage at a collective level in order to fill them with meaning. The lecture is ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review ).In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and ... Read more

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  • Abortion

    The Legal Truth, the Religious Truth, the Philosophical Truth (Moral/Ethical)

    by Stéphane Bordeau ...
    This book tells the truth about the controversial subject called ABORTION**; a** source of endless conflicts in most countries.You will be surprised to realize that the Catholic Church does not consider Abortion as a homicide, nor even as a crime, but only as a sin (for its members only).You will learn how a simple medical procedure to terminate an unacceptable pregnancy has become the basis for ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • To Bless the Space Between Us

    A Book of Blessings

    by John O'Donohue ...
    From the author of the bestselling Anam Cara comes a beautiful collection of blessings to help readers through both the everyday and the extraordinary events of their lives.John O’Donohue, Irish teacher and poet, has been widely praised for his gift of drawing on Celtic spiritual traditions to create words of inspiration and wisdom for today. In To Bless the Space Between Us, his compelling blend ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • French Verbs - Intensive Lexical Builder with Embedded Sentences

    by Hermes Language Reference ...
    This is an intensive lexical builder for French verbs. It presents the most common French verbs, embedded in sentences, thereby appealing to both short-term and long term memory and ensuring rapid and stable memorization. It is addressed mainly to beginner learners; however, intermediate learners could also profit from it, since care has been taken to highlight numerous idiomatic expressions in ... Read more

    $1.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eternal Echoes

    Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

    by John O'Donohue ...
    "A soaring, eloquent meditation on the art of living . . . a treasury for readers of all faiths . . . his book itself is a profound, healing prayer." — Publishers WeeklyThere is a divine restlessness in the human heart, our eternal echo of longing that lives deep within us and never lets us settle for what we have or where we are. In this exquisitely crafted and inspirational book, John O'Donohue, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We Have Never Been Modern

    by Bruno Latour ...
    With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith. What does it mean to be modern? What difference does the ... Read more

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