Introduction
Chapter 1: The nonhuman: Another history of African philosophy
Chapter 2: Lifeworlds of the postcolony: Between metaphysics and existence
3: The world through genre: Representing and translating worlds as non-objective realities in novelistic writing
Chapter 4: A phenomenology of death
Chapter 5: African philosophies of violence
Chapter 6: Meanings of the nonhuman
Concluding words
Biography
Alena Rettová is Professor of African and Afrophone Philosophies at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Prior to joining Bayreuth, Alena taught Swahili literature and African philosophy at SOAS University of London for 14 years. Her publications include Afrophone Philosophies: Reality and Challenge (2007) and Chanter l'existence: La poésie de Sando Marteau (2013). Alena has co-produced a series of films about philosophy, Philosophical Journeys: Experiencing Texts, filmed in the DRC, Rwanda, the Czech Republic, and France.
