Overview
Features a geographically and disciplinarily diverse contributor list
Provides a collection of discourses on African social ethics and ethical practices
Uses a combination of theory and applied cases
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Family and Community (Eros as in Belonging, Togetherness)
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Polity (Violence, Power, Figures)
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About this book
This Handbook provides a robust collection of vibrant discourses on African social ethics and ethical practices. It focuses on how the ethical thoughts of Africans are forged within the context of everyday life, and how in turn ethical and philosophical thoughts inform day-to-day living. The essays frame ethics as a historical phenomenon best examined as a historical movement, the dynamic ethos of a people, rather than as a theoretical construct. It thereby offers a bold, incisive, and fresh interpretation of Africa’s ethical life and thought.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nimi Wariboko is the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University, USA. He is the author of Ethics and Society in Nigeria: Identity, History, Political Theory (2019).
Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics
Editors: Nimi Wariboko, Toyin Falola
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36490-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36489-2Published: 31 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36492-2Published: 31 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36490-8Published: 30 March 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 634
Topics: Non-Western Philosophy, African Culture, African History, African Politics, African Literature