Messay Kebede
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3699734 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Messay Kebede |
| NOMBRES | Messay |
| APELLIDO | Kebede |
| FIRMA | KEBEDE M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Dayton |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Beyond Dualism and Monism
There is an old but still unresolved debate pertaining to the question of Bergsonian monism or dualism. Scholars who think that Bergson is ultimately monist clash with those who claim that he has consistently maintained a dualist position. Others speak of contradiction and point out his failure to reconcile dualism with monism. What feeds on the debate is Bergson’s undeniable change of direction: while his first book is flagrantly dualist, his se…
The Ethiopian Student Movement
Research Article| April 01 2015 The Ethiopian Student Movement: A Rejoinder to Bahru Zewde’s The Quest for Socialist Utopia Messay Kebede Messay Kebede University of Dayton, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Northeast African Studies (2015) 15 (1): 175–186. https://doi.org/10.14321/nortafristud.15.1.0175 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Messay Kebede; T…
From Perception to Subject
In lieu of an abstract, here is the opening paragraph to the essay:What singles out philosophical analyses of perception is the challenge to common sense, that is, to the spontaneous, instinctive belief that an external world exists and that it is similar to the perception we have of it. Even those theories that refrain from questioning the independent existence of the world concede that the resemblance of whatever is out there to the perceived r…
Retour aux sources
This paper discusses the ideas of Asres Yenesew, who was a leading clerical scholar during Haile Selassie’s reign. Frustrated by the marginalization of Ethiopia despite the preservation of its independence, Asres identifies the introduction of Western education as the main culprit and derives the economic satellization of Ethiopia from the cultural ascendancy of the West. As a remedy, he proposes a return to the source by which alone Ethiopia can…
Return to the Source
This paper discusses the ideas of Asres Yenesew, who was a leading clerical scholar during Haile Selassie's reign. Frustrated by the marginalization of Ethiopia despite the preservation of its independence, Asres identifies the introduction of Western education as the main culprit and derives the economic satellization of Ethiopia from the cultural ascendancy of the West. As a remedy, he proposes a return to the source by which alone Ethiopia can…
The Civilian Left and the Radicalization of the Dergue
This article attempts to explain the radicalization of the military committee in Ethiopia known as the Dergue. The committee brought down the monarchy and initiated far-reaching socialist transformations of the country. Yet the Dergue had not initially shown any propensity to radicalism. To explain this conversion to Marxist–Leninist ideology, scholars have thus far provided three prevailing views: (i) the Dergue radicalized to steal the revoluti…
Gebrehiwot Baykedagn, Eurocentrism, and the Decentering of Ethiopia
The article critically evaluates the analysis that Gebrehiwot Baykedagn, a prominent intellectual among the early Ethiopians who were exposed to Western education, gives of Ethiopia's social and technological lag behind European countries. It shows how the Eurocentric conception of history prevented Baykedagn from developing any positive view about Ethiopian history and culture and how this failure led him to prescribe wrong remedies despite his …
African Development and the Primacy of Mental Decolonization
The drastic and manifold difficulties Africa faces suggest that something more than mere delay, unfavorable conditions or misguided policies is obstructing the goal of development. The suggestion calls for a serious reflection on the experience of colonialism, but in a way different from those studies tracing African predicaments back to colonial or imperialist misdeeds. This does not mean colonialism is not the real culprit, just that such a sta…
The Rehabilitation of Violence and the Violence of Rehabilitation
It is generally admitted that in the specific case of self-defense involving persons or nations, recourse to violence is a legitimate choice. Outside such cases of self-defense, only the state has the legitimate power to use violence, it being assumed that the monopoly of violence by the state is precisely how individuals give up their own right to violence and agree to come under a political authority. However, theories, such as Marxism, have al…
Directing Ethnicity Toward Modernity
La question ethnique est souvent presentee comme une cause majeure des conflits ayant lieu en Afrique subsaharienne, selon un cercle vicieux dans lequel le manque de stabilite politique empeche le developpement, situation attisant a son tour les rivalites. Apres avoir rappele les trois principales vues sur la question ethnique, a savoir l'approche primordialiste, l'approche instrumentaliste et l'approche constructiviste, l'A. confronte les deux p…
On the Relationship between the Spiritual and the Material
The purpose of this essay is to show that the issue of "underdevelopment" not only raises one of the most basic and oldest problems of philosophy, namely the relationship between the spiritual and the material, but also helps positively to reformulate it. For, on closer examination, it will appear that the striking aspect of underdevelopment is that it constitutes a glaring symptom of a characteristic disturbance or maladjustment. By its strangen…
Science and ideology via development
"Ways Leading to Bergson's Notion of "Perpetual Present
In his philosophy of life, Bergson's aim is very clear: to determine, beyond mechanism and finalism, the essence of change and of evolution according to the order of duration in opposition to the order of space or juxtaposition. His intention is to penetrate the specificity of the order of duration. Regarding time, the analyses of the previous philosophers are proved to be deceiving, since all of them, according to him, ended up in reducing time …
Gebrehiwot Baykedagn, Eurocentrism, and the Decentering of Ethiopia
The article critically evaluates the analysis that Gebrehiwot Baykedagn, a prominent intellectual among the early Ethiopians who were exposed to Western education, gives of Ethiopia's social and technological lag behind European countries. It shows how the Eurocentric conception of history prevented Baykedagn from developing any positive view about Ethiopian history and culture and how this failure led him to prescribe wrong remedies despite his …
Beyond Dualism and Monism
There is an old but still unresolved debate pertaining to the question of Bergsonian monism or dualism. Scholars who think that Bergson is ultimately monist clash with those who claim that he has consistently maintained a dualist position. Others speak of contradiction and point out his failure to reconcile dualism with monism. What feeds on the debate is Bergson’s undeniable change of direction: while his first book is flagrantly dualist, his se…
From Perception to Subject
In lieu of an abstract, here is the opening paragraph to the essay:What singles out philosophical analyses of perception is the challenge to common sense, that is, to the spontaneous, instinctive belief that an external world exists and that it is similar to the perception we have of it. Even those theories that refrain from questioning the independent existence of the world concede that the resemblance of whatever is out there to the perceived r…
African Development and the Primacy of Mental Decolonization
The drastic and manifold difficulties Africa faces suggest that something more than mere delay, unfavorable conditions or misguided policies is obstructing the goal of development. The suggestion calls for a serious reflection on the experience of colonialism, but in a way different from those studies tracing African predicaments back to colonial or imperialist misdeeds. This does not mean colonialism is not the real culprit, just that such a sta…
The Ethiopian Student Movement
Research Article| April 01 2015 The Ethiopian Student Movement: A Rejoinder to Bahru Zewde’s The Quest for Socialist Utopia Messay Kebede Messay Kebede University of Dayton, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Northeast African Studies (2015) 15 (1): 175–186. https://doi.org/10.14321/nortafristud.15.1.0175 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Messay Kebede; T…
Return to the Source
This paper discusses the ideas of Asres Yenesew, who was a leading clerical scholar during Haile Selassie's reign. Frustrated by the marginalization of Ethiopia despite the preservation of its independence, Asres identifies the introduction of Western education as the main culprit and derives the economic satellization of Ethiopia from the cultural ascendancy of the West. As a remedy, he proposes a return to the source by which alone Ethiopia can…
"Ways Leading to Bergson's Notion of "Perpetual Present
In his philosophy of life, Bergson's aim is very clear: to determine, beyond mechanism and finalism, the essence of change and of evolution according to the order of duration in opposition to the order of space or juxtaposition. His intention is to penetrate the specificity of the order of duration. Regarding time, the analyses of the previous philosophers are proved to be deceiving, since all of them, according to him, ended up in reducing time …
Science and ideology via development
On the Relationship between the Spiritual and the Material
The purpose of this essay is to show that the issue of "underdevelopment" not only raises one of the most basic and oldest problems of philosophy, namely the relationship between the spiritual and the material, but also helps positively to reformulate it. For, on closer examination, it will appear that the striking aspect of underdevelopment is that it constitutes a glaring symptom of a characteristic disturbance or maladjustment. By its strangen…
The Rehabilitation of Violence and the Violence of Rehabilitation
It is generally admitted that in the specific case of self-defense involving persons or nations, recourse to violence is a legitimate choice. Outside such cases of self-defense, only the state has the legitimate power to use violence, it being assumed that the monopoly of violence by the state is precisely how individuals give up their own right to violence and agree to come under a political authority. However, theories, such as Marxism, have al…
Directing Ethnicity Toward Modernity
La question ethnique est souvent presentee comme une cause majeure des conflits ayant lieu en Afrique subsaharienne, selon un cercle vicieux dans lequel le manque de stabilite politique empeche le developpement, situation attisant a son tour les rivalites. Apres avoir rappele les trois principales vues sur la question ethnique, a savoir l'approche primordialiste, l'approche instrumentaliste et l'approche constructiviste, l'A. confronte les deux p…
African Development and the Primacy of Mental Decolonization
The drastic and manifold difficulties Africa faces suggest that something more than mere delay, unfavorable conditions or misguided policies is obstructing the goal of development. The suggestion calls for a serious reflection on the experience of colonialism, but in a way different from those studies tracing African predicaments back to colonial or imperialist misdeeds. This does not mean colonialism is not the real culprit, just that such a sta…
Gebrehiwot Baykedagn, Eurocentrism, and the Decentering of Ethiopia
The article critically evaluates the analysis that Gebrehiwot Baykedagn, a prominent intellectual among the early Ethiopians who were exposed to Western education, gives of Ethiopia's social and technological lag behind European countries. It shows how the Eurocentric conception of history prevented Baykedagn from developing any positive view about Ethiopian history and culture and how this failure led him to prescribe wrong remedies despite his …
The Civilian Left and the Radicalization of the Dergue
This article attempts to explain the radicalization of the military committee in Ethiopia known as the Dergue. The committee brought down the monarchy and initiated far-reaching socialist transformations of the country. Yet the Dergue had not initially shown any propensity to radicalism. To explain this conversion to Marxist–Leninist ideology, scholars have thus far provided three prevailing views: (i) the Dergue radicalized to steal the revoluti…
Retour aux sources
This paper discusses the ideas of Asres Yenesew, who was a leading clerical scholar during Haile Selassie’s reign. Frustrated by the marginalization of Ethiopia despite the preservation of its independence, Asres identifies the introduction of Western education as the main culprit and derives the economic satellization of Ethiopia from the cultural ascendancy of the West. As a remedy, he proposes a return to the source by which alone Ethiopia can…
Return to the Source
This paper discusses the ideas of Asres Yenesew, who was a leading clerical scholar during Haile Selassie's reign. Frustrated by the marginalization of Ethiopia despite the preservation of its independence, Asres identifies the introduction of Western education as the main culprit and derives the economic satellization of Ethiopia from the cultural ascendancy of the West. As a remedy, he proposes a return to the source by which alone Ethiopia can…
From Perception to Subject
In lieu of an abstract, here is the opening paragraph to the essay:What singles out philosophical analyses of perception is the challenge to common sense, that is, to the spontaneous, instinctive belief that an external world exists and that it is similar to the perception we have of it. Even those theories that refrain from questioning the independent existence of the world concede that the resemblance of whatever is out there to the perceived r…
The Ethiopian Student Movement
Research Article| April 01 2015 The Ethiopian Student Movement: A Rejoinder to Bahru Zewde’s The Quest for Socialist Utopia Messay Kebede Messay Kebede University of Dayton, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Northeast African Studies (2015) 15 (1): 175–186. https://doi.org/10.14321/nortafristud.15.1.0175 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Messay Kebede; T…
Beyond Dualism and Monism
There is an old but still unresolved debate pertaining to the question of Bergsonian monism or dualism. Scholars who think that Bergson is ultimately monist clash with those who claim that he has consistently maintained a dualist position. Others speak of contradiction and point out his failure to reconcile dualism with monism. What feeds on the debate is Bergson’s undeniable change of direction: while his first book is flagrantly dualist, his se…
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