Hey Babacar,

It must be wonderful to have all this "collective love" coming your way today? :) 

Yes, N’dokaleku (via AS)

And I hope that your book makes Hegel squirm a little more in his tomb.


Mark Christian



There comes a time when silence is betrayal
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

During times of universal deceit,
telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act
George Orwell

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against
Malcolm X


Office: 513-785-3276
Fax:     513-785-3145

http://www.units.muohio.edu/sociology/faculty_and_staff/christian_mark.shtml
________________________________________
From: The Drum: A Community of Scholars [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Camara, Babacar Dr. [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 9:06 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [THEDRUM] New Release

Folks,
Hot from the press and from your very own!

[cid:3381296794_63090715]


Table of Contents

 *   Preface
 *   Introduction
 *   Chapter 1. History According to Hegel
 *   Chapter 2. Contradictions in the Hegelian System
 *   Chapter 3. The State and Civil Society
 *   Chapter 4. Fundamental Aspects of African Cultures
 *   Chapter 5. From the Concept of Labor to the Labor of Concept
 *   Chapter 6. Labor in Traditional Africa
 *   Epilogue

"Babacar Camara has provided a remarkable study of Hegel's thought in the context of colonialism, neocolonialism, and anti-colonial struggles for social change in Africa. He gives scholars devoted to rethinking Hegel and dialectical thought much for thought, whether from the perspective of literature, philosophy, or political economy, and especially in the African context. Camara offers a nuanced critique of fetishism and other obstacles to a reflective anthropology of freedom, where articulating the movement of the rational and the real emerges from sources about which liberationists are most ambivalent. As with C.L.R. James, who saw the importance of exploring Hegel's thought to understand Marx's, Camara reminds us, in no mixed terms, of the enduring value of genuine struggles with the proverbial source. In so doing, he reminds us of the conditions by which contradictions could be productive through engagements with African Diasporic thought"—Lewis R. Gordon, author of An Introduction to Africana Philosophy and Existentia Africana

"Babacar Camara undertakes a complex project of simultaneously critiquing Hegel's infamous assessment of Africa, while refreshing Hegelianism itself. Camara reveals Africa to be a construction that contemporary 'Africans' need to confront in order to engage in meaningful social change. In the process, Camara seeks to invert core and periphery and argue nothing less than 'the world is African.' It is a challenging read that holds much promise for renewing Hegelian studies while making a solid contribution to Africana studies. "Randall Halle, University of Pittsburgh