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Introduction: Blind, or Keenly Self-regarding?
The dilemma of Western philosophy
Carl Mika and Michael Peters

1 The Humanist Bias in Western Philosophy and Education
Michael A. Peters

2 Counter-Colonial and Philosophical Claims: An indigenous observation of Western philosophy
Carl Mika

3 Through the Crucible of Pain and Suffering: African-American philosophy as a gift and the countering of the western philosophical metanarrative
George Yancy

4 How Can We Overcome the Dichotomy that Western Culture has
Created Between the Concepts of Independence and Dependence?
Zehavit Gross

5 Rethinking the ‘Western Tradition’
Penny Enslin and Kai Horsthemke

6 How the West Was One: The Western as individualist, the
African as communitarian
Thaddeus Metz

7 Human Freedom and the Philosophical Attitude
Sharon Rider

8 Doubt, Despair and Hope in Western Thought: Unamuno and the promise of education
Peter Roberts

9 The Offerings of Fringe Figures and Migrants
A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul

10 Actual Minds of Two Halves: Measurement, Metaphor and the Message
Georgina Stewart

11 On the (Im)potentiality of an African Philosophy of Education to Disrupt Inhumanity
Yusef Waghid

 

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