Mabogo P. More: Philosophical Anthropology in Azania (Creolizing the Canon)

Mabogo P. More: Philosophical Anthropology is the first book to provide an extensive treatment of More’s Africana existential thought. This book locates him, as it is clear in his body of work, in the Azanian (Black and Indigenous) existential tradition. As a philosopher, he is engaged from the perspective of black radical thought. From this intervention, it is clear that his philosophical project originates and is expressed from the existential condition of being-black-in-an-antiblack-world. It is from the lived experience and the fact of being black that More is meditated upon and this book, which is the extension of his work, brings to the forth the ways of thinking, knowing, and doing that that illuminate his philosophical project. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Notes Chapter 1: The Revolutionary Teacher A Giver The Class On the Revolutionary Operation Notes Chapter 2: The Phenomenology of Azania The Apparatus as the Problem for Thought The Foundationless Mandela’s House For Azania: On Critical Conjunctures Notes Chapter 3: Shifting the Geography of Reason Location and Dislocation Home Away from Home A Critique of Decadence Notes Chapter 4: The Figure of the Rebel First as Principality The Republic of Silence The Threat and Fear of Death Notes Chapter 5: Authorship, Text, and Death The Facticity Death The Obituary and the End of Writing The Will and the Ontology of the Signature On the Auto-obituary Notes Conclusion Notes References Index About the Author "This is the first book-length work to focus on the philosophical and anthropological contribution of Mabogo More, a prominent and influential black South African existentialist thinker"-- Provided by publisher