Michael Onyebuchi Eze's Books

Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa

By: M. Eze

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Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa

By: M. Eze

In examining the intellectual history in contemporary South Africa, Eze engages with the emergence of ubuntu as one discourse that has become a mirror and aftermath of South Africa s overall historical narrative. This book interrogates a triple socio-political representation of ubuntu as a displacement narrative for South Africa s colonial consciousness; as offering a new national imaginary through its inclusive consciousness, in which different, competing, and often antagonistic memories and histories are accommodated; and as offering a historicity in which the past is transformed as a symbol of hope for the present and the future. This book offers a model for African intellectual history indignant to polemics but constitutive of creative historicism and healthy humanism.

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Springer

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0230109691

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9780230109698

The Politics of History in Contemporary Africa

By: M. Eze

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The Politics of History in Contemporary Africa

By: M. Eze

This book mediates a dialectics between power and subjectivity versus history and politics. The invention of Africa is not merely a residue of Africa's encounter with Europe but a project in continuity in contemporary history of Africa, where history has become a location of struggle and meaning, a location of power and domination. Eze contends that postcolonial African studies that thrive by way of unanimity, analogy, or homogenenity are merely advancing a "defeatist" historicism. It attempts to gain essence by inverting the terms of colonial discourse and is decisively implicated in the very logic of coloniality. This method of historiography not only stifles the overall socio-political imagination of contemporary Africa but offers a dogmatic blueprint for politics of domination. Eze argues that a chance for an African Renaissance is dependent on review mechanisms of African historiography.

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0230110045

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Rick Turner's Politics as the Art of the Impossible

By: Michael Onyebuchi Eze,Lawrence Hamilton,Laurence Piper,Gideon van Riet,Paula Ensor,Daryl Glaser,Christine Hobden,Billy Keniston,Ayesha Omar,John Sodiq Sanni,Tendayi Sithole,Crain Soudien

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Rick Turner's Politics as the Art of the Impossible

By: Michael Onyebuchi Eze,Lawrence Hamilton,Laurence Piper,Gideon van Riet,Paula Ensor,Daryl Glaser,Christine Hobden,Billy Keniston,Ayesha Omar,John Sodiq Sanni,Tendayi Sithole,Crain Soudien

Revisits the work of Rick Turner, a South African political theorist, and addresses contemporary debates Rick Turner was a South African academic and anti-apartheid activist who rebelled against the apartheid state at the height of its power. For this he was assassinated in 1978, at just 32 years of age, but his life and work are testimony to the power of philosophical thinking for humans everywhere. Turner chose to live freely in an unfree time and argued for a non-racial, socialist future in a context where this seemed unimaginable. This book takes seriously Rick Turner’s challenge that political theorising requires thinking in a utopian way. Turner’s seminal book The Eye of the Need: Towards a Participatory Democracy laid out some of his most potent ideas on a radically different political and economic system. His demand was that we work to escape the limiting ideas of the present, carefully design a just future based on shared human values, and act to make it a reality, both politically and in our daily lives. The contributors to this volume engage critically with Turner’s work on race relations, his relationship with Steve Biko, his views on religion, education and gender oppression, his participatory model of democracy, and his critique of enduring forms of poverty and economic inequality. They show how, in his life and work, Turner modeled how we can dare to be free and how hope can return, as the future always remains open to human construction. This book makes an important contribution to contemporary thinking and activism where the need for South Africans to define their understanding of their greater common good is of crucial importance.

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NYU Press

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1776148967

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Kantian Dignity and Trolley Problems in the Literature of Richard Wright

By: Michael Wainwright

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Kantian Dignity and Trolley Problems in the Literature of Richard Wright

By: Michael Wainwright

This book examines the literature of African-American author Richard Wright and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, arguing that Wright was not only the foremost proponent of minoritarian protest literature, but also a groundbreaking minoritarian exponent of philosophical literature. In presenting this argument, the volume defends trolley problems from the criticism that some philosophers level against them by promoting their use as an interpretive tool for literary scholars. Starting with Martha C. Nussbaum’s interventions in literary theory concerning Henry James and perceptive equilibrium, this book draws on the philosophical thoughts of her contemporaries—Philippa Foot, John Rawls, Judith Jarvis Thomson, and Derek Parfit—to analyze Uncle Tom’s Children, especially “Down by the Riverside,” alongside other works by Wright. This approach emphasizes Wright’s recognition of the importance and integrity of Kant’s concept of dignity.

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Springer Nature

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3031402162

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How to Be Perfect

The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

By: Michael Schur

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How to Be Perfect

The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

By: Michael Schur

From the creator of The Good Place and the co-creator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,500 years of deep thinking from around the world"--

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