The Demise of the Inhuman: Afrocentricity, Modernism, and Postmodernism - Hardcover

Monteiro-ferreira, Ana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 143845225X ISBN 13: 9781438452258

Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr, 2014

Synopsis

Employs a critical Afrocentric reading of Western constructions of knowledge so as to overcome the dehumanizing tendencies of modernity.

Winner of the 2015 Best Scholarly Book Award presented by the Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement

Afrocentricity is the most intellectually dominant idea in the African world, one that is having a growing impact on social science discourse. This paradigm, philosophically rooted in African cultures and values, fundamentally challenges major epistemological traditions in Western thought, such as modernism and postmodernism, Marxism, existentialism, feminism, and postcolonialism. In The Demise of the Inhuman, Ana Monteiro-Ferreira reviews what Molefi Kete Asante has called the “infrastructures of dominance and privilege,” arguing that Western concepts such as individualism, colonialism, race and ethnicity, universalism, and progress, are insufficient to overcome various forms of oppression. Afrocentricity, she argues, can help lead us beyond Western structures of thought that have held sway since the early fifteenth century, towards a new epistemological framework that will enable a more human humanity.

About this title

About the Author:

Ana Monteiro-Ferreira is Assistant Professor of Africology and African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University.

About this edition

• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 143845225X
• ISBN 13: 9781438452258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 215