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Deliberative Agency


Deliberative Agency

A Study in Modern African Political Philosophy
World Philosophies

von: Uchenna Okeja

28,99 €

Verlag: Indiana University Press
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 15.03.2022
ISBN/EAN: 9780253059895
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 234

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<p>Public deliberation, highly valued by many African societies, becomes the cornerstone of a new system of African political philosophy in this brilliant, highly original study. In <i>Deliberative Agency</i>, philosopher Uchenna Okeja offers a way to construct a new political center by building it around the ubiquitous African practice of public deliberation, a widely accepted means to resolve legal matters, reconcile feuding groups, and reestablish harmony.</p>
<p>In cities, hometown associations and voluntary organizations carry out the task of fostering deliberation among African groups for different reasons. In some instances, the deliberation aims to settle disputes. In others, the aim is to decide the best action to take to address unfortunate incidents such as death. </p>
<p>Through a measured, comparative analysis, <i>Deliberative Agency</i> argues that the best way to reimagine and harness the idea of public deliberation, based on current experiences in Africa, is to see it as performance of agency. Building a new political center around the practice places agency at the core of a new political life in Africa.</p>
<p>Acknowledgments<br>Introduction<br>1. Defining African Political Condition<br>2. African Political Thought<br>3. Normative Deficit<br>4. Palaver and Consensus<br>5. Indigenous Political Concepts, Conceptual Loss and Political Failure<br>6. Conceptual Creativity<br>7. Conceptualizing Political Philosophy Through Conceptual Creativity<br>8. Deliberative Agency and Meaning in Politics<br>Epilogue<br>Bibliography<br>Index</p>
<p>Uchenna Okeja is a professor of philosophy at Rhodes University and research associate at Nelson Mandela University. He is the co-editor of the journal <i>Philosophical Papers</i>.</p>
<p>The Arab spring starting in Tunisia as a promise of democracy and ending as a popular embrace of the rule of one man is emblematic of what is called in this book <i>political failure</i>&#xa0;on the African continent. But <i>Deliberative Agency: A Study in Modern African Political Philosophy</i> is not an exercise in afro-pessimism. It is a call for afro-responsibility. The responsibility to re-think and re-invent African conceptual creativity in political philosophy from a future-oriented&#xa0;perspective. Uchenna Okeja's work&#xa0;leads on that path.</p>

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