The Split Time: Economic Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective (SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought) - Softcover

Wariboko, Nimi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438489781 ISBN 13: 9781438489780

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2023

Synopsis

Aims to construct an economic philosophy from indigenous African thought.

The quest for economic development is arguably the most frustrating and tragic dimension of human existence in Africa. As its primary task, The Split Time constructs an economic philosophy from a tradition of thought that is indigenous to Africa, arguing that there are long-neglected resources within African philosophy to guide economic policymakers toward creating an African economy that can sustain human flourishing. Exploring notions of destiny, temporality, and desire, Nimi Wariboko constructs an economic-philosophical framework to rethink solutions to the vexing problem of economic development in Africa. He also provides a robust social-ethical perspective in which the basic aspects of economic life-the agential (accounts of human agency, telos), the circumstantial (material/social context), and the affective (to feel appropriately what matters to a people in an economy or their desire for human flourishing)-come together to fire social imagination about development policies for the common good.

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About the Author

Nimi Wariboko is Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University. His previous books include The Split Time: Economic Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective, also published by SUNY Press, and Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria: Beautiful, Monstrous, Ridiculous.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 10: 1438489781
• ISBN 13: 9781438489780
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 246