Overview
Highlights the critical juxtaposition of Popper’s ideas in a bid to make good sense of social and intellectual conditions in Africa
Provides a diverse contextualization of Popper’s critical rationalism concerning knowledge
Shows Popper’s generalized attitude of criticism on appropriate social and political reforms in contemporary Africa
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Popper and Politics in Africa
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Popper and Knowledge Production in Africa
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Keywords
- Impact of Karl Popper’s ideas
- Popper and Politics in Africa
- Knowledge and Politics in Contemporary Africa
- Popper and Knowledge Production in Africa
- Delicate Nature of African Traditions
- Quest for Sustainable Development in Africa
- Nietzsche’s Intellectual Integrity
- Paradigms for Epistemic Transparency in Africa
- Classificatory Pattern for Hate Speeches in Nigeria
- Poverty and Epistemic Injustice In Africa
- Tolerance as the basis for a new world order
- Liberal politics and the imperative of good governance
- Popper On Tolerance, Ethnicity, Religious Extremism
- Nigerian Democratic Culture
- Concept Of Freedom In African Politics
- Aftermaths Of Shaded Justice In Nigeria
- Exploring Karl Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance
- Postcolony and open society in Africa
- Exorcising Tribal Mentality In Modern African Society
About this book
This book provides a diverse contextualization of Popper’s critical rationalism concerning knowledge and his generalized attitude of criticism on appropriate social and political reforms in contemporary Africa. The book evaluates how best to address contemporary political problems, especially in politically very troubled parts of the world. To address these contemporary problems, especially as it relates to Africa, the authors found the political philosophy of Popper as suitable. The discussion of Popper’s political philosophy engages us directly with all the particularities of socio-economic and political problems within contemporary Africa. In other words, it presents the truth of the present socio-political reality in Africa where the question of what kinds of political ideas and concepts can be offered as appropriate to a political environment, which so greatly faces facets of developmental issues.
Although the issues and events that informed the writings of Popper’s The Poverty of Historicism as well as The Open Society and Its Enemies, were among others, the rise of fascism and communism in Europe, the inventiveness of this work is how happily scholars in non-liberal societies, such as in Africa, can pick up Popper’s insights and usefully work with them to offer appropriate social reforms for their society. This volume is a critical juxtaposition of Popper’s ideas in a bid to make good sense of social and intellectual conditions in Africa, particularly as it relates to the scale and speed of social change that is needed in most African nations that are often ridden by corruption. The book is suitable for studies in political philosophy, economic and development studies, African Studies and Indigenous Knowledge systems.Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Oseni Taiwo AFISI is current Head, Department of Philosophy, Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria. His areas of competence include critical thinking, logic, political philosophy and Philosophy of science with a special interest in Karl Popper’s critical rationalism. He had his Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Philosophy from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He later proceeded to the University of Canterbury, New Zealand where he wrote his thesis on “Karl Popper’s Critical Rationalism and the Politics of Liberal-Communitarianism”, and obtained a PhD. degree in philosophy. He was a visiting academic to the Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia in 2011. He has attended several conferences and has published widely in highly revered journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Karl Popper and Africa: Knowledge, Politics and Development
Editors: Oseni Taiwo Afisi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74214-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74213-3Published: 14 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74216-4Published: 15 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74214-0Published: 13 September 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 270
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Philosophy, African Politics, Knowledge - Discourse, Non-Western Philosophy, Development and Social Change