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Conversations with Cornel West
'These interviews deftly highlight... the life and thought of Cornel West. Teodros Kiros, one of our leading living philosophers, novelists, television personalities, and commentators on modern African life, brilliantly weaves together a series of dialogues that novices and experts of West's work alike will find invaluable. The questioning of Kiros and responses of West encourage us to meditate on the meaning of A Love Supreme from the heart, which the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob maintained is the site of reason.' --Neil Roberts, Professor of Political Science, Williams College
Self Definition
Self Definition argues that sex, gender, and race are constructions by the ineffable self as it seeks to define its possibilities free of domination. The self’s embodiments are themselves performances of self definition. Teodros Kiros supports his argument by a careful reading of the literature from both the Global South and Global North that spans figures, works, and eras from antiquity to our late modern present. These readings demonstrate that race, gender, and sex are performed in the Global South radically differently from in the Global North. These three notions as markers of identity are fluid, open, and expansive, and Kiros brilliantly shows this through inquiry into thought rooted...
Zara Yacob
Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Classical Ethiopian philosophy and the modernity of Zara Yacob -- Ethiopia in the seventeenth century -- Zara Yacob: Philosopher of the heart -- Walda Heywat's transformation of Zara Yacob's philosophy -- Zara Yacob and the problematic of African philosophy -- Zara Yacob's place in the history of philosophy -- Conclusion: the rationality of the heart -- Appendix: The debates about the authenticity of Zara [Yacob's] treatise -- End notes.
Self Definition
This book argues that anatomy and biology frame our gender, sex, and class, but they do not decide our possibilities. Our life-styles are our own constructions and expressions of self-definition. Teodros Kiros supports his argument by a careful reading of the literature from b...
Self-Construction and the Formation of Human Values
This volume presents a theoretical defense of the potential of ordinary individuals to construct values and through them to become self-empowering, responsible participants in a democratic community. Rather than conceiving of power as domination, the author identifies true power as self-empowerment, a notion based on self-construction. He proposes the vision of an authentically free self filled with a compassion that is a composite of reason and feeling. Such a composite self does not consciously manipulate language, truth, and desire to dominate and subordinate other individuals, but uses them to construct values and norms that can enrich others. To support his argument the author draws on both classical and contemporary philosophers, as well as on literary sources.
Explorations in African Political Thought
This rich collection brings together many of the leading authorities on African political philosophy to present a variety of perspectives on this rapidly growing field. They seek to show that African philosophy can serve African people as a moral activity guided by the principles of practical reason in addressing problems of the basic structures of social, political, and economic institutions.
Classical Ethiopian Philosophy
Presents the basic texts of Ethiopian philosophy, each preceded by a specific introduction. Also includes a general introduction which emphasizes the place held by philosophy in Ethiopia from the fifth to eighteenth century. This introduction also determines the philosophical contribution of Ethiopia in relation to the thought of traditional wisdom throughout the African continent.
A Companion to African Philosophy
This volume of newly commissioned essays provides comprehensive coverage of African philosophy, ranging across disciplines and throughout the ages. Offers a distinctive historical treatment of African philosophy. Covers all the main branches of philosophy as addressed in the African tradition. Includes accounts of pre-colonial African philosophy and contemporary political thought.
Ethiopian Discourse
A collection of essays which acquaints the reader with the history, challenges and traditions of classical and modern Ethiopia. The teachings and seminal works of two distinguished academics, Ghalewdos Araia and Tecola Hago, have greatly influenced Dr Kiros' own thinking and research. Ethiopian Discourse is a distillation of what these renowned Ethiopian scholars have taught him, presented eloquently in a series of essays that are guaranteed to inform and enlighten readers with an interest in this many-layered country.
Philosophical Essays
Democracy as we have come to know it is principally associated with the Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle. The accepted view is that the idea of democracy originated with the Greeks and that democracy is therefore European in origin. In a narrow sense, this is true; however, in a wider sense, this conception is misleading and needs to be corrected by further analytic distinctions. First written for an Ethiopian audience, Philosophical Essays addresses this issue and gives a unique, African perspective on the history of democracy.
