ISBN:
0415939364
,
0415939372
Language:
English
Pages:
XVIII, 189 S
,
24 cm
DDC:
199/.6
Keywords:
Philosophy, African
;
Philosophy
;
Philosophy, African
;
Philosophy Africa
;
Subsaharisches Afrika
;
Philosophie
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Understanding Another CultureUnderstanding Others and Ourselves -- A Procedure from an Aesthetic Point of View -- "Found in Translation" -- 2. Foundations of Modern African Philosophy -- Ethnophilosophy and the "Negritude" Movement -- Critical, Scientific Philosophy -- Sage Philosophy -- 3. Liberation and Postcolonial African Philosophy -- African Humanism and Socialism -- Postcolonial African Thought -- The Question of "Race" -- 4. African Moral Philosophy I: Community and Justice -- Persons, Individualism, and Communalism -- Suffering and Injustice -- Poverty and Human Development -- 5. African Moral Philosophy II: Truth and Reconciliation -- Linking Communalism, Ubuntu, and Restorative Justice -- Understanding the Grammar of Justice after Apartheid -- "Not All Storytelling Heals": Criticisms of the TRC Process -- Justice and Political Transformation -- 6. Narrative in African Philosophy: Orality and Icons -- The Philosophical Significance of Oral Narratives -- Rational Dialogue, Democracy, and the Village Palaver -- Finding Pictures and Fictitious Narratives "Surprising" -- Iconic Forms and the Aesthetic Consciousness Revisited -- 7. Some Concluding Remarks.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-181) and index
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/2002283789.html
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