Author : Tsenay Serequeberhan
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438457898
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Book Synopsis Existence and Heritage by : Tsenay Serequeberhan
Download or read book Existence and Heritage written by Tsenay Serequeberhan and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores overlapping concerns and themes in African(a) and continental philosophy. In Existence and Heritage, Tsenay Serequeberhan examines what the European philosophical tradition has to offer when encountered from the outsider perspective of postcolonial African thought. He reads Kant in the context of contemporary international relations, finds in Gadamers work a way of conceiving relations among differing traditions, and explores Heideggers analysis of existence as it converges with Marxs critique of alienation. In the confluence of these different assessments, Serequeberhan articulates both a need and example of responding to Fanons call for a new kind of thinking in philosophy. He demonstrates both how continental philosophy can be a useful resource for theorizing Africas postcolonial condition and how postcolonial thought and African philosophy can provide a new way of approaching and understanding the Western tradition.