Handbook of African Philosophy
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-25148-1 (ISBN)
lt;p> Dr Elvis Imafidon lectures at the Department of Religions and Philosophies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He specialises in comparative African philosophy and continental philosophy with particular interest in such areas as African ontology, African ethics and African philosophy of disability. He is author of African Philosophy and the Otherness of Albinism: White Skin, Black Race (2019), and editor of Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-ethics (2014), The Ethics of Subjectivity: Perspectives since the Dawn of Modernity (2015), and Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference (2020).
Dr Mpho Tshivhase is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria. She lectures undergraduate and postgraduate courses mainly in ethics - ranging from African and Western philosophical traditions. She holds a doctoral degree in Philosophy from the University of Johannesburg. Her research interests are personhood, personal uniqueness, and themes of love, autonomy, authenticity, death, and African ethics, as well as aspects of race and feminism. She has authored (and reviewed) academic papers in the above mentioned areas and has presented papers at local and international conferences. Mpho has worked on different interdisciplinary institutional projects at the University of Pretoria that were hosted by the Center for Human Rights, the Faculty of Humanities, and the Center for Advancement of Scholarship. She was a member of the Moralities Research group at the Bayreuth University in Germany where she was invited as a visiting scholar. Mpho also works with the university's Department of Student Affairs as the Humanities Faculty House Guardian. She is also the current serving President of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa. Mpho holds the 2018 Dean's Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities Faculty and the 2019 Institute of People Management CEO's Excellence Award. Furthermore, she is on the list of the 2019 Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans.
Dr Björn Freter received his Doctorate from Free University, Berlin, Germany. He is now working as an Independent Scholar based in Knoxville, TN, USA. His research fields include political philosophy, African philosophy, postcolonial philosophy, animal ethics, phenomenology of normativity and literary studies. He has published several essays in these areas and particularly within postcolonial African philosophy.
African Philosophy from a Multidisciplinary Perspective.- African EthicsAfrican Epistemology.- African Metaphysics and African Logic.- African Communitarian Philosophy.- African Philosophy of Education.- African Philosophy of DisabilityAfrican Communitarian Philosophy.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.10.2023 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Handbooks in Philosophy |
| Zusatzinfo | XVIII, 651 p. 1 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 1238 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| Schlagworte | african communitarian philosophy • african ethics • African metaphysics • African ontology • African phenomenology • african philosophy of difference • African philosophy of education • companion to african philosophy |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-25148-2 / 3031251482 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-25148-1 / 9783031251481 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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