دانلود کتاب Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Is She Not Also a Human Being?
Left Exercises in Retrieval
Left Universalist, African, Black: Postrace for the Postcolony
Africacentric Universalism
The Necessity of Universalism, Universalism as Native Necessity
The Transcultural Work of Native Universalism
Notes
2. Difference and Left Universalism
Political Ethics and Elective Entailments
In Defense of the Political Correct(ion)ness of Multiculturalism
The Public Appearance of Difference
Vindication of Discordant Voices in the House of Difference
Affirming Difference in the Name of the Human: Eccentric Affinities
Left Universalist vs. Communitarian Allies of Multiculturalism
Universalism and Cosmopolitanism: Category Confusion
The Critical Circle at Work
Notes
3. Ethical Communism in African Thought
Historical Communism and the Idea of Communism
Political Vision as the Vocation of the Literary Artist
The Principle of Connectedness: From Elegy to Injunctive Metaphysics
African Socialism, Scientific Socialism, Ethical Communism
‘Producers and Parasites’: Social Division as ‘Ethical Diremption’
‘Preparation of the Future Way’: Prefigurative Ethics and Politics
‘Our Way, the Way’: Ethical Communism and Political Philosophy
Notes
Postscript to Chapter 3: Rereading ‘Masks and Marx’ after G.A.
Cohen and the Ethical Turn
Notes
4. Individualism in Fanon and After
Critique of Value Apartheids
Individualism in Fanon
From Civic Republican to the New Individualism
From Black Orpheus to African Prometheus
The Idiosyncratic Individualism of Paulin Hountondji
Individualism in Kwame Gyekye’s Social Ontology
Human Good, Postcolonial Imperative
Notes
Postscript to Chapter 4: Egoism and Conformism: Pathologies of
the Moral Life in Ghana
Notes
5. Enigmas and Proverbs
Context of the Literary Universal
Poetics of Real Enigmas
Metaphysical Wonder as Allegoresis
Rival Histories and Epistemological Crisis
Enigma and Utopia
Notes
Index