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  • Intellectual Decolonisation

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by George Hull ...
    This book puts contemporary calls for decolonisation in context. Featuring an interdisciplinary team of scholars from around the world, the book explores and critically assesses the diverse theoretical visions which inform calls for decolonisation of the mind today.Contemporary calls to decolonise focus less on politico-economic relations between states, more on culture and ideas. Sometimes ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Equal Society

    Essays on Equality in Theory and Practice

    by George Hull, Charles Mills, Miranda Fricker, Daniel Putnam, Bekka Williams, Tom Angier, Lucy Allais, David Bilchitz, Daryl Glaser, Ann E. Cudd0, Gina Schouten1, Pierre-Yves Néron2, Thaddeus Metz3, Jonathan Wolff, University College London, UK4 ...
    Equality is a widely championed social ideal. But what is equality? And what action is required if present-day societies are to root out their inequalities?The Equal Society collects fourteen philosophical essays, each with a fresh perspective on these questions. The authors explore the demands of egalitarian justice, addressing issues of distribution and rectification, but equally investigating ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Debating African Philosophy

    Perspectives on Identity, Decolonial Ethics and Comparative Philosophy

    Edited by George Hull ...
    In African countries there has been a surge of intellectual interest in foregrounding ideas and thinkers of African origin—in philosophy as in other disciplines—that have been unjustly ignored or marginalized. African scholars have demonstrated that precolonial African cultures generated ideas and arguments which were at once truly philosophical and distinctively African, and several contemporary ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities

    Re-reading the Canon

    by George Hull, Lisa Treffry-Goatley, Marzia Milazzo, Rocío Cobo-Piñero, Pedro Tabensky, Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe, Pier Paolo Frassinelli, Chielozona Eze ...
    Series series African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
    Recognizing philosophy’s traditional influence on—and literature’s creative stimulus for—sociopolitical discourses, imaginations, and structures, African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-readingthe Canon, edited by Aretha Phiri, probes the cross-referential, interdisciplinary relationships between African literature and African philosophy. The contributors write within the broader ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

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  • Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life

    Politics and Ethics at the Intersection of North Atlantic and African Philosophy

    by Omedi Ochieng ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    What makes for good societies and good lives in a global world? In this landmark work of political and ethical philosophy, Omedi Ochieng offers a radical reassessment of a millennia-old question. He does so by offering a stringent critique of both North Atlantic and African philosophical traditions, which he argues unfold visions of the good life that are characterized by idealism, moralism, and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • New Critical Legal Thinking

    Law and the Political

    Edited by Matthew Stone, Costas Douzinas, Illan Wall ...
    Series series Birkbeck Law Press
    New Critical Legal Thinking articulates the emergence of a stream of critical legal theory which is directly concerned with the relation between law and the political. The early critical legal studies claim that all law is politics is displaced with a different and more nuanced theoretical arsenal. Combining grand theory with a concern for grounded political interventions, the various contributors ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Hermeneutics of African Philosophy

    Horizon and Discourse

    by Tsenay Serequeberhan ...
    Hermeneutics is a crucial but neglected perspective in African philosophy. Here, Tsenay Serequeberhan engages post-colonial African literature and the ideas of the African liberation struggle with critically-used insights from the European philosophical tradition. Continuing the work of Theophilus Okere and Okonda Okolo, this book attempts to overcome the debate between ethnophilosophy and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Human Rights, Inc.

    The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law

    by Joseph R. Slaughter ...
    In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of “world literature” and international human rights law are related phenomena.Slaughter argues that international law shares with the modern novel a particular conception of the human individual. The Bildungsroman, the novel ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Law and the Politics of Reconciliation

    Edited by Scott Veitch ...
    This collection of essays by an international group of authors explores the ways in which law and legal institutions are used in countries coming to terms with traumatic pasts and, in some cases, traumatic presents. In putting to question what is often taken for granted in uncritical calls for reconciliation, it critically analyses and frequently challenges the political and legal assumptions ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Philosophy and Geography II

    The Production of Public Space

    by Edward S. Casey, Ian Chaston, Edward Dimendberg, Matthew Gorton, John Gulick, Ted Kilian, Hugh Mason, Mario Pascalev, Neil Smith, John Stevenson, Luke Wallin, Mary Ann Tétreault, John White, Jean Hillier ...
    Series series Philosophy and Geography
    The future of public space is uncertain. Although public spaces have become increasingly shabby and crowded, novel alternatives have appeared in the form of fantastic, semi-public pleasure grounds, developed by well-heeled, crowd-pleasing entrepreneurs and devoted to profit, consumption, and self-indulgence. Philosophers and geographers have converged on the topic of public space, fascinated and ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Against Decolonisation

    Taking African Agency Seriously

    by Olúfemi Táíwò ...
    Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West's direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing "morality" or "authenticity;" it suffocates African thought and denies African agency. Olúfemi Táíwò fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of 'decolonisation' to everything from literature, language and philosophy to ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Small Places, Large Issues

    An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

    by Thomas Hylland Eriksen ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    ‘Remains among the most brilliant summaries of key ideas animating anthropology. In his famously accessible writing style, Eriksen introduces fundamental questions that shape human life, and provides an overview of the discipline’s contribution to the pressing issues of our times. A must-read’ Ursula Rao, Director, Anthropology of Politics and Governance, Max Planck Institute for Social ... Read more

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