| 书目名称 | Foundations of Just Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Kant and African Political Thought |
| 编辑 | Gemma K. Bird |
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| 概述 | Is unique in its use of African scholarship to discuss the Kantian concept of self-law giving as a potentially universal foundational principle.Addresses topical debates within international relations |
| 丛书名称 | International Political Theory |
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| 描述 | .This book addresses the potential existence of shared foundational principles in the work of Immanuel Kant and a range of African political thought, as well as their suitability in facilitating just and fair cross-cultural dialogue. The book first establishes an analytical framework grounded in a Kantian approach to understanding shared human principles, suggesting that a drive to be self-law giving may underpin all human interactions regardless of cultural background. It then investigates this assumption by carrying out a theoretical analysis of texts and speeches from a variety of African scholarship, ranging from the colonial period to the present day. The analysis, divided into three distinctive chapters covers the Négritude movement, African socialism and post-colonial philosophers, including such thinkers as: Léopold Sédar Sengor, Julius K Nyerere, Kwame Nkrumah, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Kwasi Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye. The author argues that underpinning each of their very different theoretical positions and arguments is a foundational argument for the importance of self-law giving. In doing so she highlights the need to respect this principle when embarking on cross-cultural di |
| 出版日期 | Book 2019 |
| 关键词 | Kant and African Political Thought; Multiculturalism and Relativism; Négritude Movement; Post-Coloniali |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97943-4 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-07425-8 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-97943-4Series ISSN 2662-6039 Series E-ISSN 2662-6047 |
| issn_series | 2662-6039 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 |
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