African Modernity and the Philosophy of Culture in the Works of Femi Euba 9781498545679, 9781498545662

African Philosophy and Thought Systems. a Search for a Culture and Philosophy of Belonging 9956763012, 9789956763016

The once acrimonious debate on the existence of African philosophy has come of age, yet the need to cultivate a culture

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Culture and Philosophy in the Age of Plotinus 9781472598103

This book offers a survey of the teachings of, and relations between, four leading figures in third-century Platonism: L

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The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing 9780691212401

An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centu

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Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars 9781558493735, 2002013897, 1558493735

In any age and any given society, cultural practices reflect the material circumstances of people's everyday lives.

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Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity 9780822375555

Allyson Nadia Field recovers the forgotten body of African American filmmaking from the 1910s which she calls uplift cin

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Douglas Sirk, Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture of Modernity 9781474409407

Examines the influence of modernist art and architecture on the work of American director Douglas Sirk The first truly

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African Philosophy in Search of Identity 9781474470773

African Philosophy in Search of Identity

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Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora 9780812294781

Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the A

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Philosophy and Politics at the Precipice: Time and Tyranny in the Works of Alexandre Kojève

Philosophy and Politics at the Precipice: Time and Tyranny in the Works of Alexandre Kojève maintains that political phi

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Philosophy and Politics at the Precipice: Time and Tyranny in the Works of Alexandre Kojève

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