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Sorcery, Totem, and Jihad in African Philosophy - Christopher Wise

Sorcery, Totem, and Jihad in African Philosophy

Buch | Hardcover
216 Seiten
2017
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-01311-7 (ISBN)
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In this significant new work in African philosophy, Christopher Wise explores deconstruction’s historical indebtedness to Egypto-African civilization and its relevance in Islamicate Africa today. He does so by comparing deconstructive and African thought on the spoken utterance, nothingness, conjuration, the oath or vow, occult sorcery, blood election, violence, circumcision, totemic inscription practices, animal metamorphosis and sacrifice, the Abrahamic, fratricide, and jihad. Situated against the backdrop of the Ansar Dine’s recent jihad in Northern Mali, Sorcery, Totem and Jihad in African Philosophy examines the root causes of the conflict and offers insight into the Sahel’s ancient, complex, and vibrant civilization. This book also demonstrates the relevance of deconstructive thought in the African setting, especially the writing of the Franco-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida.

Christopher Wise is Professor of English at Western Washington University, USA. His is an expert in Comparative Literature, Critical Theory and African Studies and is author of Derrida, Africa and the Middle East (2009).

Series Foreword
Introduction: Deconstructing Azawad

1. The Plundering of Mali, Past and Present
2. The African Trace
3. The Sahelian Specter
4. The Duty of Violence
5. Nyama, Fratricide, and Reconciliation
6. What Is To Be Done?

Epilogue: Zongo, Sankara, and the Burkinabe Revolution
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 462 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Östliche Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-350-01311-0 / 1350013110
ISBN-13 978-1-350-01311-7 / 9781350013117
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