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Author(s): Oseni Taiwo Aﬁsi (Editor)

ISBN(s): 9783030742140, 3030742148

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Year: 2021

Language: English

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Author: Oseni Taiwo Aﬁsi

Karl Popper and Africa: Knowledge, Politics and Development

This book provides a diverse contextualization of Popper’s critical rationalism concerning knowledge and his generalized attitude of criticism on appropriate social and political reforms in contemporary Africa. The book evaluates how best to address contemporary political problems, especially in politically very troubled parts of the world. To address these contemporary problems, especially as it relates to Africa, the authors found the political philosophy of Popper as suitable. The discussion of Popper’s political philosophy engages us directly with all the particularities of socio-economic and political problems within contemporary Africa. In other words, it presents the truth of the present socio-political reality in Africa where the question of what kinds of political ideas and concepts can be offered as appropriate to a political environment, which so greatly faces facets of developmental issues. Although the issues and events that informed the writings of Popper’s The Poverty of Historicism as well as The Open Society and Its Enemies, were among others, the rise of fascism and communism in Europe, the inventiveness of this work is how happily scholars in non-liberal societies, such as in Africa, can pick up Popper’s insights and usefully work with them to offer appropriate social reforms for their society. This volume is a critical juxtaposition of Popper’s ideas in a bid to make good sense of social and intellectual conditions in Africa, particularly as it relates to the scale and speed of social change that is needed in most African nations that are often ridden by corruption. The book is suitable for studies in political philosophy, economic and development studies, African Studies and Indigenous Knowledge systems.

Table contents:

1. General Introduction
Part I. Popper and Politics in Africa
2. Popper’s Politics in the Light of African Values
3. Karl Popper’s Social Engineering: Piecemeal or ‘Many-Pieces-at-Once’?
4. Africa’s Development Crisis and the Limits of Popper’s Negative Utilitarianism
5. Karl Popper, the Nigerian State and Democratic Consolidation
6. The Distinctive Character of Popper’s Critical Rationalism
7. Tolerance, Multiculturalism and the Search for National Unity
8. Shedding the Subaltern Condition: Karl Popper and the New Cosmopolitanism
9. Popper and Youth Participation in Democracy in Africa: Perspectives on Applying the Dynamics of an Information Society
10. Assessing Faith-Based Terrorism Through Popper’s Conception of Tolerance
11. Towards an Ethos of Toleration in Multicultural Societies: The Significance of Popper’s Critical Rationalism
12. “How Far May We Tolerate the Intolerant?” Assessing Popper’s Reflections on Tolerance from the Nigerian Polity
13. Falsificationism: In Defence of the Scientific Status of Marxism
14. Karl Popper’s Critique of Nationalism: Exorcising Tribal Mentality in Modern African Society
15. Situating Postcolonial Africa within Popper’s Critique of Nationalism
16. Karl Popper, Tribalism and the Question of Africa’s Development
17. Karl Popper on Nationalism and the Issue of Indigenization in Lagos
Part II. Popper and Knowledge Production in Africa
18. A Popperian Perspective on Poverty and Epistemic Injustice in Africa
19. Karl Popper and Intellectual Openness in Africa: The Rationale for Political Emancipation
20. Verificationism and Falsificationism from an African Indigenous Knowledge Perspective
21. Interrogating Edmund Gettier’s Idea of Justification with Karl Popper’s Anti-Foundationalism
22. Popper’s Critical Rationalism and the Legitimacy of an African Epistemic System
23. General Conclusion