Existence and Crisis Approaches from African Phenomenology
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Global awareness of diverse crises demands more discussion about the meaning and future of human existence and its relation to other modes of being. Given the need for such discussion, contributions in this special issue examine various perspectives on the relationship between the concepts of existence and crisis. The focus is on how African phenomenological conceptions frame existence as both shaped by and responsive to crisis. The contributions address various themes concerning the relation between existence and crisis, including issues of methodology, technology, politics, universal human rights, colonial history, and ecology. They reveal how African phenomenology opens new critical and constructive approaches to existential crises across diverse contexts. To contextualize the contributions to this special issue, I introduce the concepts of African phenomenology and existentialism, with specific reference to the concepts of existence and crisis, together with a very brief outline of the contributions to this special issue.
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