Existence and Consolation: Reinventing Ontology, Gnosis, and Values in African Philosophy

by Ada Agada, Jonathan Chimakonam (Editor)

Overview

Existence and Consolation offers a new stage in original African philosophy that transcends the vestiges of both European colonialism and African ethnocentrism. Consolation philosophy is the culmination of loose developments in African thought that stretch back to ancient Egypt. It reconstructs and reinvents African thought in the wake of the modernism and deconstruction that left African philosophy fractured and reaches a relatively complete synthesis. In his philosophy of mood, metaphysics combines with morality and rationality is combined with emotionality, creating wholeness with universal appeal.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151344104
Publisher:	Paragon House Publishers
Publication date:	03/13/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	392
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

ADA AGADA is based at the University of Nigeria Nsukka where he obtained his master’s in philosophy. He specializes in African philosophy, existentialism and metaphysics. He has authored quite a number of articles on the subjects. He propounded the theory of Consolationism in African philosophy. His research and publication in the area of African philosophy have spanned years of unwavering interest.

Editorial Reviews

Agada’s philosophy is ambitious, responsive to the history of African and Western philosophy and cognizant of the realities of living in Africa. His existential project is well conceived and carefully explored. This account addresses significant elements of African life and thought, while at the same time making a robust contribution to world philosophy. It stands as a significant new contribution to the expanding literature on African forms of life and thought, and deserves a wide reading.

University of Central Florida - Bruce Janz

A challenging and well-informed rereading of African philosophy to date that leads to an impressively comprehensive speculative account of the world and of human experience that balances a tragic sense of life with the joy of being: this is a consolation philosophy rooted in the African experience of the world.

St. Augusitine College of South Africa - Gerard Walmsley

As Africa’s global influence grows in the 21st century, the significance of that continent’s philosophies rises as well. Agada sheds important light on the contemporary human condition…

Claremont McKenna College - John K. Roth