
The Split Time
Economic Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Aims to construct an economic philosophy from indigenous African thought.
The quest for economic development is arguably the most frustrating and tragic dimension of human existence in Africa. As its primary task, The Split Time constructs an economic philosophy from a tradition of thought that is indigenous to Africa, arguing that there are long-neglected resources within African philosophy to guide economic policymakers toward creating an African economy that can sustain human flourishing. Exploring notions of destiny, temporality, and desire, Nimi Wariboko constructs an economic-philosophical framework to rethink solutions to the vexing problem of economic development in Africa. He also provides a robust social-ethical perspective in which the basic aspects of economic life-the agential (accounts of human agency, telos), the circumstantial (material/social context), and the affective (to feel appropriately what matters to a people in an economy or their desire for human flourishing)-come together to fire social imagination about development policies for the common good.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: Destiny, Temporality, and Economic Development
- Chapter 1 Religion, Temporality and Desire
- Chapter 2 Destiny and Desire: An Ontology of Human Flourishing
- Chapter 3 Temporality and Desire
- Chapter 4 Economy and Destiny: A Theory of Agonistic Communitarianism
- Chapter 5 Pursuit of Excellence and Economic Development
- Chapter 6 Naija-Dialectics: Theory and Methodology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover