On Reason: Rationality in a World of Cultural Conflict and Racism PDF
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On Reason On Reason RATIONALITY IN A WORLD OF CULTURAL CONFLICT AND RACISM EMMANUEL CHUKWUDI EZE DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Durham and London 2008 © 2008 Duke University Press All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ∞ Designed by C. H. Westmoreland Typeset in Warnock Pro by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. CONTENTS Publisher’s Note Preface: What Is Rationality? Acknowledgments Introduction: Diversity and the Social Questions of Reason IDENTITY DIVERSITY INDIVIDUALITY AND TYPE UNIVERSALITY AUTONOMY OF THE WORLD 1: Varieties of Rational Experience CALCULATIVE REASON FORMAL REASON HERMENEUTICAL REASON EMPIRICAL REASON PHENOMENOLOGICAL REASON CRITIQUE OF TRANSCENDENTAL REASON ORDINARY REASON 2: Ordinary Historical Reason THOUGHT AND THINGS THREE VERSIONS OF PRAGMATISM THE IDEA OF CONCEPTUAL DIVERSITY PHILOSOPHY IN POSTCOLONIAL VERNACULAR THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THINGS REASON IN HISTORY 3: Science, Culture, and Principles of Rationality FREEDOM OF SCIENCE FREEDOM OF CULTURE THE CHARACTER OF FREEDOM SCIENCE OF “RACE” ETHICS OF THE UNIVERSAL 4: Languages of Time in Postcolonial Memory COLONIALISM AND HISTORY POSTCOLONIAL HISTORICAL REASON LANGUAGE AND TIME IN POSTCOLONIAL EXPERIENCE HISTORY AND THE POSTCOLONIAL EVENT HISTORY AS THE FUTURE OF MEMORY LANGUAGE AND EXISTENCE LANGUAGE AS TRADITION 5: Reason and Unreason in Politics MORALITY AND POLITICS IN A POSTRACIAL DEMOCRACY REASON AND UNREASON IN ART AND POLITICS REASON: AN ASCETIC IDEAL RATIONALITY AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, AND AUTONOMY Notes Bibliography PUBLISHER’S NOTE On December 31, 2007, while this book was in production at Duke University Press, Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze died after a brief illness. Emmanuel was born in Agbokete in northern Nigeria, received his early education at Jesuit schools in the Congo, and earned his Ph.D. from Fordham University in 1993. He taught at Bucknell University from 1993 to 2000, when he joined the philosophy department at DePaul University. He was the founding editor of Philosophia Africana and published influential postcolonial histories of philosophy in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. He was a brilliant and provocative thinker as well as a compassionate human being. Duke University Press joins his family, friends, and colleagues in the academy in mourning his untimely loss. Reynolds Smith FOR THE PUBLISHERFOR FOR NNAMDI our coming was expected
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