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Record Nr.

UNINA9910390858403321

Titolo

The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics / / edited by Nimi Wariboko, Toyin Falola

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030364908

3030364909

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 634 pages)

Disciplina

338.96

960

Soggetti

Philosophy, Modern

Ethnology - Africa

Culture

Africa - History

Africa - Politics and government

African literature

Philosophical Traditions

African Culture

African History

African Politics

African Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- Ethics of Family, Community and Childrearing -- 3. Power Dynamics in Nuclear and Extended Families: A Feminist Foucauldian Analysis -- 4. Abuses of Children (Labor and Witchcraft Accusations) -- 5. Praying for Husbands! Single Women Negotiating Faith and Patriarchy in Contemporary Kenya -- 6. The Meaning of Human Person in the African Context -- 7. Personhood in Africa -- 8. African Communal Ethics -- 9. Between Community and my Mother: A Theory of Agonistic Communitarianism -- 10. Pluralism and African Conflict: Towards a Yoruba Theory of African Political Ethics of



Neighbourliness -- 11. Religion and Politics in Africa: An Assessment of Kwame Nkrumah's Legacy for Ghana -- 12. Ethics of Superpower and Civil War in Africa -- 13. When the Ancestors Wage War: Mystical Movements and the Ethics of War and Warfare -- 14. State and Society: A Comparative Perspective -- 15. Political Ethics of Kwame Nkrumah -- 16. Political Ethics of Leopold Senghor -- 17. Political Ethics of Franz Fanon -- 18. Spirit/Religion and Ethics in African Economies -- 19. Corruption, Nepotism, and Anti-Bureaucratic Behaviours -- 20. The Bretton Woods Institutions and Economic Development in Africa -- 21. The Ethics of State Capture: Dangote and the Nigerian State -- 22. Religion, Media and Ethics in Africa -- 23. Ethical Benchmarks in Life and Art of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti -- 24. Ethical Thought of Kwasi Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye  -- 25. Ethical Thought of Paulin Hountondji -- 26. Strangers and Patriots: Anthony Appiah and the Ethics of Identity -- 27. Ritual Archives  -- 28. The Role of Religious Practitioners in Sustaining Morality -- 29. Religion and Social Justice in Africa -- 30. The Spirit Names the Child: Pentecostal Names and Trans-Ethics -- 31. African Environmental Ethics -- 32. Ethical Thought of Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Ubuntu and Tutu's Moral Modelling as Transformation and Renewal -- 33. "Reminders of What Once Was": Ethics of Mercy Oduyoye .

Sommario/riassunto

This Handbook provides a robust collection of vibrant discourses on African social ethics and ethical practices. It focuses on how the ethical thoughts of Africans are forged within the context of everyday life, and how in turn ethical and philosophical thoughts inform day-to-day living. The essays frame ethics as a historical phenomenon best examined as a historical movement, the dynamic ethos of a people, rather than as a theoretical construct. It thereby offers a bold, incisive, and fresh interpretation of Africa's ethical life and thought.