Main entry:

Mudimbe, V. Y., 1941-2025, author.

Title & Author:

On African fault lines : meditations on alterity politics / V-Y Mudimbe.

Publication:

Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2013.

Description:

xii, 468 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Thinking Africa

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-441) and index.
Positions -- 1. What Is a Line? -- 2. On Converting: Lex Perfecta Praecepta Recta -- 3. Constructing the Colonial: Si Essent in Analogia; On This Difference That Might Not Be One -- 4. Within Silence: Haiti -- Mediations -- 5. Maya Angelou's Sign: Et Nunc ... Per Hoc Signum; On Genitives in Everyday Life Stories -- 6. Quam Metuendus Est Locus Iste (How Awe-Inspiring This Place Is) -- 7. About a Will to Truth: On Terror -- 8. On Education and Anxiety -- The Letter -- 9. At the Genesis of Presence Africaine: `La Nuit de Foi Pourtant'; Letter to Eric Van Grasdorff -- 10. Kata Nomon: Letter to Rene Devisch; On the Practice of Anthropology -- 11. On Humiliation, Yom HaShoah and Sudanese Migration -- 12. Aesthetics of Commitment: Preface to Yacouba Konate's La Biennale de Dakar and For Bogumil Jewsiewicki: Letter to Justin Bisanswa and Muriel Gomez-Perez -- 13. Ibi Pote Valere: Letter to Ambroise Kom -- Finale -- 14. Exodus as Allegory: Africa in Theories of Difference -- 15. Thinking the Black Intellectual: `Masques aux Quatre Points'.

Summary:

This collection of meditations reformulates the experience of African studies as a concern with three thematics: Africa's place within today's intellectual, economic and cultural configurations; the main axes that structure disciplinary practices concerned with African difference; and the possibility of understanding being-in-the-world with reference to alienation, creativity and friendship. Book jacket.

ISBN:

9781869142445
1869142446

Subject:

Political science Africa.
Political science Africa Philosophy.
Philosophy, African.
Other (Philosophy)
Philosophie africaine.
Altérité.
Political science.
Political science Philosophy.
Kulturanthropologie
Africa.
Afrika

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Thinking Africa.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307016
Call No.: BIB 252559
Status: Available