Mabogo Percy More

Looking Through Philosophy in Black (eBook, ePUB)

Memoirs

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This autobiography is a series of interrelated true-life events and decisions taken by a black philosopher that highlight the human drama unfolding in the inferno of the South African apartheid system. Mabogo More details what it means to be a black philosopher in an anti-black apartheid academic world. More's life story traces his emergence in philosophy and his pursuit of a philosophical dream, a dream that takes him from his South African black ghetto township to American and British universities and finally to the prestigious Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement award. His extraordinary philosophical autobiography, with an emphasis on Africana existentialism that takes into account issues of racism, identity, liberation, freedom, alienation, responsibility and bad faith, is supplemented by three key essays from his intellectual career representing the extraordinary contribution he has made to Africana philosophy and black existentialism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786609403
• Artikelnr.: 54692936

Autorenporträt

Mabogo Percy More is a former professor of philosophy at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and is currently professor of philosophy at the University of Limpopo, South Africa. He is the author of many journal articles and his latest book is Steve Biko: Philosophy, Identity and Liberation (HSRC Press, 2017). He was awarded the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement award by the Caribbean Philosophical Association in 2015.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements
Part I: A Philosophical Autobiography
1. Introduction by Way of Freedom
2. Formative Student Years
3. Philosophy Lecturer
4. Overseas Experiences
5. The Returnings
6. Black (Africana) Philosophy
7. Philosophy and jazz
8. Post 'Retirement'
9. The Frantz Fanon Award
Part II: Essays
10. Philosophy in South Africa: Before, Under and After Apartheid
11. Locating Frantz Fanon in (Post) Apartheid South Africa
12. Gordon on Contingency: A Sartrean Interpretation
13. Black Solidarity: A Philosophical Defense
14. Biko: Africana Existentialist Philosopher
Bibliography
Index