Long description:

This volume is a collection of chapters about contemporary issues within African philosophy. They are issues African philosophy must grapple with to demonstrate its readiness to make a stand against some of the challenges society faces in the coming decade such as xenophobia, Afro-phobia, extreme poverty, democratic failure and migration. The text covers new methodical directions and there is focus on the conversationalist, complementarist and consolationist movements within the field as well as the place of the Indigenous Knowledge System.The collection speaks to African philosophy?s place in intellectual history with coverage of African Ethics and African socio-political philosophy. 

Contributors come from a variety of different backgrounds, institutions and countries. Through their innovative ideas, they provide fresh insight and intellectual energy.  The book appeals to philosophy students and researchers.

Table of Contents:

Preface.- The Unfolding Palms of Contemporary African Philosophy.- Eight Practical Issues in Contemporary African Philosophy.- How African is Philosophy in Africa?.- Doing Philosophy in the African Place: A Perspective on the Language Challenge.- The Fallacy of Exclusion and the Promise of Conversational Philosophy in Africa.- How Conversational Philosophy Profits from the Particularist and the Universalist Agenda.- Examining the Method and Praxis of Conversationalism.- Why the Normative Conception of Personhood is Problematic: A Proposal for a Conversational Alternative.- African Ethics and Agent-Centred Duties.- On the One Concept and Many Accounts of African Ethics.- How to Report on War in the Light of an African Ethic.- Taking African Virtue Ethics and Character Training Principles to the Schools.- Ubuntu as a plausible Ground for a Normative Theory of Justice from the African Place.- Remedial Approach to Cultural Globalization and Intercultural Competence.- Decolonial Philosophical Praxis Exemplified Through Superiorist and Adseredative Understandings of Development.- Totality by Analogy; or: The Limits of Law and Black Subjectivity.- The African Philosopher and the Burden of Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS).- Changes, Adaptation and Complementary Noetic Transformation.- Ageing, Ageism, Cultural Representations of the Elderly and the Duty to Care.- The Struggle to Forgive: Some Philosophical - Theological Reflections.- The Themes of Nihilism, Pessimism, and Optimism in Ibuanyidanda and Consolation Ontologies.- African Philosophy and Intellectual History.- Index.