1st Edition
The African Other Philosophy, Justice and the Self
Foreword
Abraham Olivier
Introduction – The African Other: Philosophy, Justice and The Self
Abraham Olivier
Part I: Problems of Justice
1. Justice Through Deliberation and The Problem of Otherness
Uchenna Okeja
2. Consensual Recognition of Universal Rights in African Custom
Christopher Allsobrook
3. Implicitly Racist Epistemology: Recent Philosophical Appeals to The Neurophysiology of Tacit Prejudice
Helen Lauer
Part II: Formations of The Self
4. Breaking the Gridlock of The African Postcolonial Self-Imagination: Marx against Mbembe
M. John Lamola
5. Ressentiment In the Postcolony: A Nietzschean Analysis of Self and Otherness
Veeran Naicker
6. Can I Choose to Be Who I Am Not? On (African) Subjectivity
Katrin Flikschuh
Part III: Strategies Against Othering
7. A Most Dangerous Error: The Boasian Myth of a Knock-Down Argument against Racism
Robert Bernasconi
8. Steve Biko: Black Consciousness and The African Other – The Struggle for The Political
Michael Cloete
9. Rebellion and Revolution
Pedro Tabensky
10. The African Animal Other: Decolonizing Nature
Louise Du Toit
Biography
Abraham Olivier is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Fort Hare, South Africa. He is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa and former Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Philosophy. He has published extensively on topics relating to phenomenology, philosophy of mind, place and pain, and African philosophy.
