Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze

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Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze

At the time of his death, Eze was Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, where he also founded and edited the journal Philosophia Africana [1]. He died on December 31, 2007, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania^[2] after a short illness.

Background

Eze was born to Nigerian parents, Daniel and Rebecca (who are

In 1983 Eze resigned the job and enrolled at St. Ignatius Jesuit Novitiate in Benin City. From 1985 to 1987 he studied at S. Pierre Canisius College in Kimwenza, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He then taught French language at Bishop Kelly College in Benin City for an academic year before moving to New York. He received his Masters (1989) and Ph.D. (1993) from Fordham University. His doctoral thesis was on "Rationality and the Debates about African Philosophy."

Eze taught at

• On Reason: Rationality in a World of Cultural Conflict and Racism (2008)
  ISBN 978-0822341956 [2]
• Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader (1997),
  ISBN 0-631-20137-8. [3]
• Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader (1997),
  ISBN 0-631-20340-0.[4]
• Achieving our Humanity: The Idea of the Postracial Future (2001),
  ISBN 0-415-92941-5.[5]
• African Philosophy: An Anthology(2006),
  ISBN 0-631-20338-9.[6]
• Pensamiento Africano (I): Ética y política,
  ISBN 84-7290-155-6. [7]
• Pensamiento Africano (II): Filosofía,
  ISBN 84-7290-189-0. [8]
• Pensamieto Africano (III): Cultura y Sociedad,
  ISBN 84-7290-282-X. [9]

• "Out of Africa: Communication Theory and Cultural Hegemony". Telos 111 (Spring 1998). New York: Telos Press

See also

• Africana philosophy
• African philosophy
• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers

Notes

Further reading

• Carmen L. Bohórquez, “Apel, Dussel, Wiredu and Eze: An Intercultural Approach to the Ideal of Justice,” Revista de Filosofia, Vol. 34, No. 1 (2000): 7–16.
• Michael A. Rosenthal, “'The black, scabby Brazilian': Some Thoughts on Race and Early Modern Philosophy,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vo.l 31, No. 2 (2005): 211–221.
• M.L. Thomas, "The Consensus-Democracy Model of the Akan as an Alternative Approach to Political Decision Making.” [10]^{[permanent dead link]}

On “Achieving our Humanity: The Idea of the Postracial Future”

• Review by Frank M. Kirkland, in Notre Dame Philosophical Review, 2002.04.05 [11] Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine
• Review by Cleavis Headley, “The Ideal of the Postracial Future,” in Philosophia Africana, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2004:109–202.
• Critique by
  Charles Mills
  , "Kant's Untermenschen," in Andrew Valls, Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy, Cornell University Press, 2005, pp. 169–193.

On “Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader”:

• Review by Peter Hulme, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2000: 232–233 [12]
• Review by Bob Carter, “Out of Africa: Philosophy, 'race' and agency ,” in Radical Philosophy, May/June 1998. [13]
• Review by Andrew N. Carpenter, in Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 23 No. 3 (2000).
• Review by Felmon Davis, in Constellations, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1998: 296–304 [14]
• Review in Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, No. 16, 1997: 137–138
• Review by Adam Shatz, “What has the worst of the Enlightenment have to do with the best of it?,” Lingua Franca, April–May 1997, pp. 19–20

On “Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader”:

• Review by Kai Kresse, in polylog: Forum for Intercultural Philosophy [15]
• Review in Philosopher's Magazine. [16]
• Review in The Sociological Review, Vol. 45, No. 4, 1997: 704–750 [17]
• Review in Transformation, Vol. 18, No. 4, 2001: 264 [18]

On “African Philosophy: An Anthology”:

• Review by Barry Hallen, “African Philosophy in a New Key,” in African Studies Review, Vol. 43, No. 3, 2000: 131–134.
• Review by Stephen Clark, “African Philosophy: an anthology,” in Afr Aff (Lond), 1999 98: 128–130.
• Review by Nigel Gibson, in African and Asian Studies, Vol. 36, No. 3, 2001: 253–329.
• Review by Rodney C. Roberts, in Philosophy East and West, October, 1999 [19]

External links

• Democracy or Consensus? Response to Wiredu by Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze
• African Philosophy at the Turn of the Millennium Interview with Rick Lewis