Thinking Freedom in Africa: Toward a Theory of Emancipatory Politics

by Michael Neocosmos

Thinking Freedom in Africa conceives an emancipatory politics beginning from the axiom that 'people think'. Previous ways of conceiving the universal emancipation of humanity have in practice ended in failure. Marxism, anti-colonial nationalism and neo-liberalism all understand the achievement of universal emancipation through a form of state politics. Marxism, which had encapsulated the idea of freedom for most of the twentieth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1868148661
• ISBN13: 9781868148660
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Wits University Press
• Length: 674 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.7" x 9.5"