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Black Feminist Thought
A study by an American sociologist, subtitled Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Collins argues that Black women in the United States have produced a body of…
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God Is Red
A book by the Standing Rock Sioux scholar and activist, first published in 1973, amid the Native American activism of the period, and reissued in 1994 with the…
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
A two-volume defence of liberal democracy, written in New Zealand during the Second World War. Volume One, The Spell of Plato, reads the Republic as a blueprint for…
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The Invention of Africa
A study by a Congolese philosopher and novelist, subtitled Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge. Using methods drawn from Michel Foucault, Mudimbe asks how the idea of…
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The End of History and the Last Man
A book expanding Fukuyama's 1989 essay 'The End of History?', written as communist regimes were collapsing. Fukuyama argues that liberal democracy may be the end point of humanity's…
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Decolonising the Mind
A short book of four essays, partly developed from lectures, by the Kenyan novelist, subtitled The Politics of Language in African Literature. It opens with a statement announcing…
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Why Not Socialism?
A short book by the analytical Marxist G. A. Cohen, published in 2009 and developed from an earlier essay. It opens with a camping trip: friends on holiday…
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On the Postcolony
A book of linked essays by a Cameroonian political philosopher, first published in French with the subtitle Essai sur l'imagination politique dans l'Afrique contemporaine. Mbembe rejects two habits…
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Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government
A treatise that revives the republican tradition of political thought, associated with Roman writers, Machiavelli, the English Commonwealthmen and the American founders. Pettit's central claim is that freedom…
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In My Father’s House
A book of essays by the British-Ghanaian philosopher, subtitled Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. Appiah asks what it means to speak of African identity, and argues that…
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