A companion to African philosophy /
This volume, comprised of 42 newly commissioned and 5 adapted essays, provides comprehensive coverage of African philosophy, ranging across disciplines and throughout the ages. The essays encompass all the main branches of philosophy - logic, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, religion,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2004.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to philosophy ;
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- COVER
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION: AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY IN OUR TIME
- PART I: HISTORY
- 1 Egypt: Ancient History of African Philosophy
- 2 African Philosophers in the Greco-Roman Era
- 3 Precolonial African Philosophy in Arabic
- 4 Some Nineteenth-Century African Political Thinkers
- 5 Africana Philosophy: Origins and Prospects
- 6 Contemporary Anglophone African Philosophy: A Survey
- 7 Philosophy in South Africa Under and After Apartheid
- 8 Philosophy in North Africa
- 9 The Light and the Shadow: Zera Yacob and Walda Heywat: Two Ethiopian Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century
- 10 Zera Yacob and Traditional Ethiopian Philosophy
- 11 Anton Wilhelm Amo
- 12 Amo's Critique of Descartes' Philosophy of Mind
- 13 Albert Luthuli, Steve Biko, and Nelson Mandela: The Philosophical Basis of their Thought and Practice
- 14 Frantz Fanon (1925 ... 1961)
- 15 Theory and the Actuality of Existence: Fanon and Cabral
- 16 Alexis Kagame (1912 ... 1981): Life and Thought
- 17 Post-Independence African Political Philosophy
- PART II: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
- 18 Some Methodological Controversies in African Philosophy
- 19 Sage Philosophy: Its Methodology, Results, Significance, and Future
- PART III: LOGIC, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND METAPHYSICS
- 20 Logic in the Acholi Language
- 21 Yoruba Moral Epistemology
- 22 Ifá: An Account of a Divination System and Some Concluding Epistemological Questions
- 23 Toward a Theory of Destiny
- 24 On the Normative Conception of a Person
- 25 African Conceptions of a Person: A Critical Survey
- 26 Quasi-Materialism: A Contemporary African Philosophy of Mind
- PART IV: THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
- 27 Religion in African Culture: Some Conceptual Issues
- 28 Okot p'Bitek's Critique of Western Scholarship on African Religion
- 29 Islam in Africa: Examining the Notion of an African Identity within the Islamic World
- PART V: ETHICS AND AESTHETICS
- 30 Some African Reflections on Biomedical and Environmental Ethics
- 31 Ethics and Morality in Yoruba Culture
- 32 Aesthetic Inquiry and the Music of Africa
- 33 Art and Community: A Social Conception of Beauty and Individuality
- 34 The Many-Layered Aesthetics of African Art
- PART VI: POLITICS
- 35 Government by Consensus: An Analysis of a Traditional Form of Democracy
- 36 Democracy, Kingship, and Consensus: A South African Perspective
- 37 Fellowship Associations as a Foundation for Liberal Democracy in Africa
- 38 Economic Globalism, Deliberative Democracy, and the State in Africa
- 39 Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Violence
- 40 Western and African Communitarianism: A Comparison
- 41 Human Rights in the African Context
- 42 The Politics of Memory and Forgetting After Apartheid
- 43 The Question of an African Jurisprudence: Some Hermeneutic Reflections
- PART VII: SPECIAL TOPICS
- 44 Knowledge as a Development Issue
- 45 African Philosophy and African Literature
- 46 Philosophy and Literature in Francophone Africa
- 47 Feminism and Africa: Impact and Limits of the Metaphysics of Gender
- INDEX
- A
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- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
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- I
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- K
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