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"This work of African philosophy and theology uses the thought of Emmanuel Levinas to provide an analysis of tfu (witchcraft) among the Wimbum people of Cameroon along with a critique of intersubjective relations. Taking an approach he calls "critical contextualism," author Elias Bongmba employs Levinas's philosophy, particularly the concept of the Other, to engage in cross-cultural philosophy that does not destroy the perspective of the culture under study. Insights from anthropology, African studies, and the author's own experiences are also important throughout the book. Bongmba discusses the cultural background of the Wimbum people and explores the concepts and terms used to discuss the acquisition of several categories of power generally described as tfu. Bongmba argues that when properly explored and understood, these terms refer to complex practices that involve power that can be used for good and power that can be abused. Drawing from Levinas, the author demonstrates that negative use of tfu constitutes a totalizing praxis. He goes on to endorse Levinas's call for a phenomenology of eros as a way of reconfiguring interpersonal relationships."--BOOK JACKET.

Interpersonal relations --- Limbum (African people) --- Witchcraft --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- Bojin (African people) --- Limbom (African people) --- Llimbumi (African people) --- Ndzungle (African people) --- Ndzungli (African people) --- Njungene (African people) --- Nsungali (African people) --- Nsungli (African people) --- Nsungni (African people) --- Wimbum (African people) --- Wimbun (African people) --- Zungle (African people) --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Ethnology --- Human relations --- Interpersonal relationships --- Personal relations --- Relations, Interpersonal --- Relationships, Interpersonal --- Social behavior --- Social psychology --- Object relations (Psychoanalysis) --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Religion --- Lévinas, Emmanuel --- Ethics. --- Donga and Mantung (Cameroon) --- Donga-Mantung (Cameroon) --- Donga and Mantung, Cameroon --- Nkambe (Cameroon : Division) --- Religious life and customs. --- Social Sciences --- Parapsychology & Occult Sciences --- Religion.

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AIDS (Disease) --- AIDS (Disease) --- HIV infections --- HIV infections --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Religious aspects --- Christianity

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"Kantian and Hegelian conceptions of freedom guide this collection of essays that engage with the linguistic turn in continental philosophy to explore contemporary interpretations of freedom. Using a broad approach to the tradition of German Idealism, this volume considers its modern recasting of philosophy as a rigorous thinking practice with profound implications for individual and communal praxis and wellbeing. Philosophy, Freedom, Language, and its Others further cultivates and demonstrates the freedom to think and engage philosophy in a critical dialogue with other fields of inquiry. This method is exemplified in the philosophy and teaching of Professor Jere P. Surber, whom this book honors by using his interdisciplinary method as a springboard for new understandings of freedom in contemporary life. Expert scholars working in the philosophy of language, continental philosophy of religion, ancient philosophy, critical theory, and ethics engage seminal thinkers on freedom including Plato, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Debord to provide a diverse range of perspectives on freedom. In so doing, they address the complex legacy of philosophical freedom across subjects from contemporary media and political patrimonial culture to literary imagination and the politics of Nelson Mandela"--

Idealism, German --- Idealism, German. --- Idéalisme allemand --- Idéalisme allemand. --- Liberty --- Liberté --- Influence. --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie. --- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, --- Kant, Immanuel, --- Mandela, Nelson,