This book articulates how African metaphysics (characterized by force) and process metaphysics (characterized by becoming) are similar on several fronts. On the one hand, the vitalist and relational characters of African metaphysics have engrossed researchers as unique and original to Africa, but they have yet to articulate where this leads - processism. On the other hand, the becoming or event underpinning of process metaphysics which has been the focus of Anglo-American processism, has not courted deserving academic attention, due chiefly to the influence wielded by substance metaphysics. This is the primary research gap which the present book magnifies, and then addresses, while contending for intellectual exchange(s) among specialists in processism, irrespective of the philosophic tradition. To accomplish this, this book admits intercultural philosophy for assessing the principal claims of some African and process philosophers and to bring them into a conversation, with an alternative system of logic in
Ezumezu,
to mediate thought, theory, and method. This effort assists in addressing the history of misrepresentation and distortion which process metaphysics, as an under-explored tradition, has suffered and endured.
"In this timely book, Emannuel Ofuasia's lucid and rigorous exposition of
Ezumezu
Logic shows how non-deductive argumentations not only exist and have their own coherence but are the preferred methods when working with processual metaphysics in Chinese, Indigenous, and Buddhist processual philosophies."
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Jessica Zu,
University of Southern California, US; Author of
Just Awakening: Yogacara Social Philosophy in Modern China
"By amplifying becoming, relationality, and vitalism - three primary ideas that are central to African metaphysics, Ofuasia has succeeded in showing how African metaphysics is inherently processual."
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Babajide Olugbenga Dasaolu,
Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria
This book articulates how African metaphysics (characterized by force) and process metaphysics (characterized by becoming) are similar on several fronts. On the one hand, the vitalist and relational characters of African metaphysics have engrossed researchers as unique and original to Africa, but they have yet to articulate where this leads - processism. On the other hand, the becoming or event underpinning of process metaphysics which has been the focus of Anglo-American processism, has not courted deserving academic attention, due chiefly to the influence wielded by substance metaphysics. This is the primary research gap which the present book magnifies, and then addresses, while contending for intellectual exchange(s) among specialists in processism, irrespective of the philosophic tradition. To accomplish this, this book admits intercultural philosophy for assessing the principal claims of some African and process philosophers and to bring them into a conversation, with an alternative system of logic in
Ezumezu,
to mediate thought, theory, and method. This effort assists in addressing the history of misrepresentation and distortion which process metaphysics, as an under-explored tradition, has suffered and endured.
Emmanuel Ofuasia
is a Decoloniality Research Associate at the Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
