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1Offensive Heritage in an Era of Globalization and Mass MigrationJournal of Applied Philosophy. forthcoming.Essays on the ethics of monuments tend to focus on their morality in relation to domestic populations. In this article we turn our attention to how the principles we favor for the ‘ingroup’ apply to various ‘outgroups’, including foreigners and foreign governments, guest workers, visiting scholars, forcibly annexed or colonized peoples, and migrant communities. It argues that nations have a prima facie moral right to erect and maintain monuments offensive to foreigners and foreign governments or…Read more
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A Free person as a Maker of SurprisesIn Uchenna B. Okeja (ed.), Routledge Handbook of African Political Philosophy, Routledge. 2023.
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1Veil Politics in Liberal Democratic StatesCambridge University Press. 2003.In this exciting and challenging account of the development and sustainability of the liberal democratic state, Ajume H. Wingo offers a completely new perspective from that provided by political theorists. Such theorists will typically argue for the basic values of liberal democracies by rationally justifying them. This book argues that it is non-rational factors - rhetoric, symbols, traditions - that more often than not provide the real source of motivation. Drawing from both historical and phi…Read more
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8Fellowship Associations as a Foundation for Liberal Democracy in AfricaIn Kwasi Wiredu (ed.), A Companion to African Philosophy, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction A Brief Definition of Liberal Democracy Social Organizations: Definition and Taxonomy Fellowship Associations as Paedeia for a Viable Liberal Democracy Local Fellowship Associations and Liberal Democracy A Well‐Connected Liberal Democracy with a Base at the Local Level.
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Life in death : democracy and civic honorIn Laurie Johnson & Dan Demetriou (eds.), Honor in the Modern World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Lexington. 2016.
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23The Ethics of Racist MonumentsIn David Boonin, Katrina L. Sifferd, Tyler K. Fagan, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Michael Huemer, Daniel Wodak, Derk Pereboom, Stephen J. Morse, Sarah Tyson, Mark Zelcer, Garrett VanPelt, Devin Casey, Philip E. Devine, David K. Chan, Maarten Boudry, Christopher Freiman, Hrishikesh Joshi, Shelley Wilcox, Jason Brennan, Eric Wiland, Ryan Muldoon, Mark Alfano, Philip Robichaud, Kevin Timpe, David Livingstone Smith, Francis J. Beckwith, Dan Hooley, Russell Blackford, John Corvino, Corey McCall, Dan Demetriou, Ajume Wingo, Michael Shermer, Ole Martin Moen, Aksel Braanen Sterri, Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Jeppe von Platz, John Thrasher, Mary Hawkesworth, William MacAskill, Daniel Halliday, Janine O’Flynn, Yoaav Isaacs, Jason Iuliano, Claire Pickard, Arvin M. Gouw, Tina Rulli, Justin Caouette, Allen Habib, Brian D. Earp, Andrew Vierra, Subrena E. Smith, Danielle M. Wenner, Lisa Diependaele, Sigrid Sterckx, G. Owen Schaefer, Markus K. Labude, Harisan Unais Nasir, Udo Schuklenk, Benjamin Zolf & Woolwine (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy, Springer Verlag. pp. 341-355. 2018.In this chapter, we focus on the debate over publicly maintained racist monuments as it manifests in the mid-2010s Anglosphere, primarily in the United States and South Africa. After pointing to some representative examples of racist monuments, we discuss ways a monument can be thought racist and neutrally categorize removalist and preservationist arguments heard in the monument debate. We suggest that both extremist and moderate removalist goals are likely to be self-defeating and that when con…Read more
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18A Matter of Unbound Leaders in the Lives of AfricansTheoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 63 (148). 2016.
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23Joy in Living Together: Toward a Civic Appreciation of LaughterJournal of Political Philosophy 14 (2): 186-202. 2006.
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Veil Politics in Liberal Democratic StatesDissertation, The University of Wisconsin - Madison. 1997.The question seldom discussed among political philosophers is: How are liberal democracies maintained after they are established? In a liberal democratic state, the ultimate political values are: liberty, equality, political participation, tolerance, loyalty to the state, and its reproduction. This work is founded on the observation that ultimate political values cannot be based on purely rational considerations, prevailing tradition, or an overlapping consensus. I propose "veil politics" as a s…Read more
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4094The Ethics of Racist MonumentsIn David Boonin (ed.), Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy, Palgrave Macmillan. 2018.In this chapter we focus on the debate over publicly-maintained racist monuments as it manifests in the mid-2010s Anglosphere, primarily in the US (chiefly regarding the over 700 monuments devoted to the Confederacy), but to some degree also in Britain and Commonwealth countries, especially South Africa (chiefly regarding monuments devoted to figures and events associated with colonialism and apartheid). After pointing to some representative examples of racist monuments, we discuss ways a monum…Read more
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2The aesthetic of freedomIn Boudewijn de Bruin & Christopher F. Zurn (eds.), New waves in political philosophy, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 198. 2009.
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25The Immortals in Our Midst: Why Democracies in Africa Need ThemThe Journal of Ethics 19 (3-4): 237-255. 2015.Africa lacks the particular history of liberal institutions and values that has served as the foundation for democratic institutions in the West. Without such a foundation, prospects for well-functioning democracy in African are not good. I argue that a possible alternative basis for African democracy may be found in “civic immortals,” extraordinary individuals capable of introducing dramatic shifts in political values. Civic immortals occupy the highest rung of a hierarchy of personhood in many…Read more
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52Joy in living together: Toward a civic appreciation of laughterJournal of Political Philosophy 14 (2). 2006.
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49The Many‐Layered Aesthetics of African ArtIn Kwasi Wiredu (ed.), A Companion to African Philosophy, Blackwell. 2005.
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12L'Africa di fronte ad un bivio. Da suddito a cittadinoIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 18 (2): 385-398. 2005.
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116African art and the aesthetics of hiding and revealingBritish Journal of Aesthetics 38 (3): 251-264. 1998.
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Social and Political Philosophy |
African/Africana Philosophy |