On Reason: Rationality in a World of Cultural Conflict and Racism

by Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze

Given that Enlightenment rationality developed in Europe as European nations aggressively claimed other parts of the world for their own enrichment, scholars have made rationality the subject of postcolonial critique, questioning its universality and objectivity. In On Reason, the late philosopher Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze demonstrates that rationality, and by extension philosophy, need not be renounced as manifestations or tools of Western imperialism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822341956
• ISBN13: 9780822341956
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"