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Afro-Communitarian Democracy

Bernard Matolino

In going beyond African socialism and consensual democracy’s use of communitarianism, Bernard Matolino demonstrates that there is a mode of understanding communitarianism that need not necessarily be traditionalist. It is from this ever-evolving communitarian notion that an African-rooted form of democracy may arise. Such a democratic theory is one that seeks to prioritize reality and factors that have shaped and continue to shape current experience of life on the African continent. The work advocates a new mode of communitarianism, without the idealism of traditional foundations of kin connections and one which takes the ontological equality of the community and the individual. Such a communitarian outlook will secure the basic requirements of democratization without abdicating its communitarian responsibility. The communitarian democratic theory advocated here takes seriously the particular situation of each individual and yet points out the need to appreciate the inevitability of the connections among the same individuals.

Lexington Books

Pages: 190 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9

978-1-4985-8828-7 • Hardback • September 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-4985-8829-4 • eBook • September 2019 • $105.50 • (£82.00)

Series: African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue

Subjects: Philosophy / Political, Political Science / World / African

Afro-Communitarian Democracy

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Summary

In going beyond African socialism and consensual democracy’s use of communitarianism, Bernard Matolino demonstrates that there is a mode of understanding communitarianism that need not necessarily be traditionalist. It is from this ever-evolving communitarian notion that an African-rooted form of democracy may arise. Such a democratic theory is one that seeks to prioritize reality and factors that have shaped and continue to shape current experience of life on the African continent. The work advocates a new mode of communitarianism, without the idealism of traditional foundations of kin connections and one which takes the ontological equality of the community and the individual. Such a communitarian outlook will secure the basic requirements of democratization without abdicating its communitarian responsibility. The communitarian democratic theory advocated here takes seriously the particular situation of each individual and yet points out the need to appreciate the inevitability of the connections among the same individuals.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 190 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9

978-1-4985-8828-7 • Hardback • September 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-4985-8829-4 • eBook • September 2019 • $105.50 • (£82.00)

Series: African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue

Subjects: Philosophy / Political, Political Science / World / African

Author

Bernard Matolino is associate professor in philosophy at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg Campus

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: African Polities of Failure

Chapter 2: Consensus as Communitarian

Chapter 3: The Values of Communitarian Democracy

Chapter 4: Modern African Communitarianism

Chapter 5: Structure of Modern Afro-Communitarianism

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